On July 8 and 9, 2013, Cartagena of Indias (Colombia) will host the Third Conference of Information and Communication Technologies Directors from higher education institutions.
Those involved in ICT management in Latin American universities are invited to submit papers, before April 15th, 2013 and preferably on the issues here described, through the email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Suggested topics:
1. Share Collaborative Experiences
Experiences or projects where different institutions have participated generating, from collaboration, benefits for each of its members. The following topics are examples of this axis:
• Cooperative acquirement of goods and services
• Collaborative services: eduroam, etc.
• Federations
• Grids
• Collaborative systems developments
• Access to Digital Libraries
• Contingency plans for disaster recovery.
2. Solutions for Teaching and Research
Experiences from implemented projects or operative services that impact providing meaningful solutions for research, teaching or management in higher education institutions, such as:
• Scientific visualization
• Tools for simulation
• Tools for collaboration
• Virtual computer labs
• Solutions for project management
• Management and distribution of specialized software
• Cloud based solutions
• Solutions based on mobile devices
• Technology in the classroom
• Knowledge management: repositories, digital magazines, etc.
• Solutions based on third party services
• Multimedia.
3. Management Solutions
Experiences from developed projects or services in operation that are producing real impact by providing meaningful solutions for research, teaching or management in higher education institutions. Among them:
• Solutions for collaborative work
• Solutions for project management
• Cloud based solutions
• Solutions based on mobile devices
• Business Intelligence
• Support for the accreditation process
• Document management and digitalization
• Solutions based on third party services
• Solutions of added-value on infrastructure.
4. Management and Governance of ICT
Share projects and developed actions in higher education institutions to manage the ICT area in an efficient, effective and aligned with corporate objectives way. The following are the issues suggested:
• Structure and HR
• Policies
• Security management
• Strategy
• Project Management
• Innovation management
• Adaptability to environment
• Funding / costs
• Protection of the intellectual property and digitalized information
• ICT Knowledge Management
• Process management
• Metric.
5. Infrastructure
Experiences from developed projects or services in operation that have improved the informatic and/or communication infrastructure of higher education institutions, to enhance the opportunities to offer new and better services. Some suggested topics are:
• Networking
• Wireless networks
• PKI
• Videoconferencing Systems
• Storage
• Data Centers
• Outsourcing
• Clouds as infrastructure
• VOIP
• IPv6
• High Performance Computing (HPC).
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Important dates April 15th: Paper submission
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