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June 03, 2005
Research Collaboration Network Launched in Americas
"These new network connections will support the advancement of science and engineering research and education in the western hemisphere," said Julio Ibarra, executive director of CIARA at FIU, further adding that with this initiative, "scholarship in the Americas will improve through new opportunities for collaborative teaching, technology-augmented student mobility and an infrastructure for inquiry-based learning."
James Dolgonas, president of CENIC, commented on the value of this initiative for research: "As the network ties together more instruments and research groups at higher speeds, the result will be an increase in the rate of gathering, processing and sharing data. This will produce an increase in the rate of discovery. This impact is so broad that it is impossible to measure. From biodiversity research, identifying specimens faster to collaborative biomedical engineering discovering drug treatments more quickly -- the impacts are vast."
This project was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation and an award from FAPESP. The NSF designates Hispanic Americans as a disadvantaged community. This award was made to two institutions that serve large Hispanic American communities in the United States. FIU, located in Miami, serves the largest contingent of Hispanic students within the continental United States. CENIC, located in Los Angeles, is located in one of the largest Hispanic populated cities in the nation. These connections offer to both the U.S. and Latin American science and education communities a new and unique benefit -- the opportunity to leverage cultural and language commonalities with collaborators in Latin America to advance their pursuit of research and education in the United States. This will offer an advantage to not only the Hispanic populations throughout the United States, but will cement collaborative relationships throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The LILA connections and its partnership with RedCLARA, the Regional Research Network, covering Latin America as a whole offer a high-speed international peering network throughout the Western Hemisphere. This allows the United States to contribute to and leverage Western Hemisphere network initiatives in a way that has previously been impossible. Our hemispheric vision creates a framework that establishes a foundation to support the needs of interregional science and education. While LILA serves to link inter-regional networks, specific domains that wish to provision dedicated or committed bandwidth have both the benefit of the LILA connections and the WHREN management organization.
As the incumbents for providing United States to Latin American research network connectivity, FIU and CENIC have demonstrated unmatched expertise in working with peer organizations from the United States and Latin America that serve the science, research and education communities in the western hemisphere. FIU and CENIC, along with peer organizations CLARA, ANSP, RNP and CUDI, form the collaboration that will interconnect the research and education networks of the western hemisphere. In particular, its connection to the RedCLARA Network already allows the U.S. researchers to reach seven countries in Latin America and a further 11 Latin American countries by the end of 2005.
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