América Latina
W2i Congreso Ciudades Digitales
Saltar la infraestructura en América Latina
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• Fechas: 4 al 5 de abril de 2006 • Ubicación: FIRJAN, Avenida Graça Aranha 1 - Centro - Río de Janeiro, Brasil
• Programa del congreso
Paneles de sesión general
• Actualización de tecnología
“¿Qué redes para qué aplicaciones?”
• Normas y marcos reguladores
“Establecimiento de servicios de asesoramiento de los gobiernos locales”
• Asociaciones público-privadas
• Financiamiento de redes de propósitos múltiples
Paneles de casos y talleres estructurados de lluvia de ideas
• Inclusión digital de zonas rurales (aprendizaje a distancia, inscripción de títulos, atención remota de la salud, etc.)
• Agilización del e-gobierno (reingeniería de procesos gubernamentales, productividad de la fuerza laboral, servicios comunitarios, etc.)
• Reacción de emergencia y seguridad pública
Latin America in the News
Fon: A Billionaire Wi-Fi Utopian
Few start-ups encapsulate the desperate utopianism of the times so much as Fon Technology. Created by the Argentinian dot.com billionaire Martin Varsavsky, who built and sold the Spanish portal Ya.com and ISP Jazztel before the bubble burst, at the heart of Fon is a soulful of hope.
• Source: (The Register, 12 February 2006)
Air-Span Building WiMAX in Rural Colombia
Wireless access and VoIP systems provider Airspan Networks Inc. announced on Monday it was chosen by the Consortium Union Temporal (COLDECON) for the deployment of a large-scale broadband rural access project in Colombia. The news follows a similar deployment in the Dominican Republic recently completed by Airspan and BEC Telecom S.A.
• Source: (TMC Net, 9 January 2006)
Korea's Samsung Brings WiMAX to Venezuela
Samsung, the South Korean Telecom and Chip giant, will collaborate with the Venezuelan pay-TV and telecommunications operator Omnivision C.A to roll out its Mobile WiMAX technology WiBRO. With the network established, Omnivision plans begin offering service from the fourth quarter of 2006 in Caracas and will expand the network to seven of the major cities over three years.
• Source: (Sify Broadband Techwack, 20 December 2005)
Setting UMTS Standards in Brazil
Latin America must license 3G within harmonised spectrum in line with the region's economic and social needs.Speaking at this week's Futurecom 2005 event in Florianopolis, Brazil, the Chairman of the UMTS Forum outlined the benefits of 3G/UMTS for bringing affordable IMT-2000 mobile/cellular services to Brazil and the Latin American region. As well as maintaining technology neutrality in the 3G licensing process, urged Jean-Pierre Beinaime, administrations in the region must respect need for hamonised spectrum, licensing 3G operators where applicable in the core 2GHz-IMT-2000 band.
• Source: (UMTS Forum, 26 October 2005)
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Comité del programa
Presidente
Fernando Peregrino
• State Secretary, Rio de Janeiro State
Copresidente
Ana Hofmann
Executive Director, Petrópolis-Tecnópolis
Maurizio Zanin
• National Confederation of Municipalities (BRA)
Arthur Ziviani
• Computer Science National Laboratory (BRA)
Axel Leblois
• Executive Director, CIFAL Atlanta (USA)
Clovis Battista
• Citel
Arthur Aragão
•FINEP (BRA)
Tereza Porto
•PRODERJ (BRA)
Pedrito Rocha
•FAPERJ (BRA)
Oswaldo Guimaraez
•FIRJAN (BRA)
Jean Claude Frajmund
Edson Soffiati
•Star One
Max Leite
•Intel
Mauirzio Moscatelli
•IBM
Joeval Martins
•Motorola
Gus Basualdo
•Alvarion
Sheila Burpee-Duncan
•BelAir Networks
Sérgio Cabral Cavalcanti
• IdeaValley
Eduardo Levi
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