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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