The Fourth Conference of Information and Communication Technology Directors from Higher Education Institutions, to be held between 26 and 28 of May 2014 in the Cancun Center (Cancun, Mexico), calls all ICT leaders of Latin American universities to send their works for contest until March 7th, 2014 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

In order to enhance the work and the role of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Directors of the universities of the region, since early 2011 the Information and Communication Technology Directors Network of Latin American universities has built a collaborative space that seeks to contribute to the continuous improvement of its institutions.

The TICAL Conference is the place where the community come together, which is feed primarily with the experiences, knowledge and initiatives presented by universities, providing significant and unprecedented solutions around ICT topics for higher education institutions in all the areas of the university labor.

Suggested Topics

1. ICT Solutions for Teaching and Research
2. ICT Solutions for Management
3. ICT Governance and Management
4. Infrastructure
5. Information Security

IMPORTANT:
It is expected that the presented works in each suggested topic are related to ICT and how its use or incorporation contributes to resolve the problems that universities in the region are facing, particularly considering the following concepts:

• Experiencies: the papers should be mainly focus on the experiences; TICAL is a space to share successes and failures among peers. No merely scientific or academic papers are intended.
• Projects or services: works should describe implemented services or executed projects.
• ICT area: TICAL gathers universities ICT managers. That is why it is intended that the papers are relevant for them.

Important dates:
March 7th, 2014: Deadline for papers submission
April 8th, 2014: Notification of selected authors
May 26 to 28 2014: TICAL2014 Conference - Cancun Center, Cancun, Mexico

For more information about the TICAL2014 call, please visit: http://tical2014.redclara.net/en/index.html

This is the first cycle of thematic meetings of the TICAL Community organized by RedCLARA. It is part of the activities of Collaboration of the Directors of Technology that integrate the TICAL Community.

Thematic meetings aim to offer to the participants a space of review and discussion on topics of interest defined within the community.

December 12, 2013 | ICT services for the academic community in times of BYOD: the experience of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Speaker: Joaquin Guerrero, Director, Academic Computing, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Moderator: Ariel Rodríguez, Director of Technology, Research and Applied Sciences TICA GI Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/encuentros_tical

December 17, 2013|Project of academic computing cloud for public universities in Costa Rica
Speaker: PhD. Ricardo Villalon and M.Sc. Loría Luis Chavarria, University of Costa Rica.
Moderator: Wilfredo Bolaños, Director of Information Technology Laboratory, Catholic University of El Salvador
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/283

From the conference website you can download the presentations of the panelists (most of them in PDF format) and visit the photo gallery of the event.