LACCIR participation in the Second Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities on Science and Technology, held in Mexico City on October 27 and 28,
hosted by the Government of Mexico through the National Council of Science and
Technology (CONACYT). The OAS Department of Science, Technology and
Innovation serves as Technical Secretariat and provides needed support for the
meeting’s organization and success.
This meeting focused on Science,
Technology, Engineering and Innovation for Prosperity.
1. Science, technology, engineering, innovation, and
public policies for integral development
a. Social inclusion and cohesion
b. Sustainable food production
2. Science, technology,
engineering, and innovation as tools for sustainable natural resource management
a. Biodiversity, environment, and biotechnology
b. Energy resources
3. Science, technology,
engineering, and innovation as tools for increasing productivity
a. Education and human-capacity building
b. Technological innovation for competitiveness
In this
picture Ignacio
Casas, LACCIR Executive Director; Jaime Puente, Director External
Research Latin America, Microsoft Research; Ambassador Alfonso Quiñones,
Executive Secretariat for Integral Development at OAS; Clovis Baptista, Director
Department of Science, Technology &
Innovation at OAS; Flora Montealegre Painter,Head of the
Department of Science &Technology at the Inter-American Development Bank; Saúl Hahn,
Microsoft Research Consultant for LACCIR; and Claudia Leiva, LACCIR General
Manager.
Visits to Mexican
Universities
On October
29th to 31st 2008,
LACCIR visited Universidad
de las Américas in Puebla, Instituto
Politécnico Nacional in Ciudad de México, and Tecnológico de Monterrey in
Monterrey.
During this visits researchers from different Computer
Science and ICT research centers showed their current projects and research
areas, and LACCIR delegation had kind meetings with Universities high
authorities.
Left picture with IPN’s President Juan Enrique Villa Rivera, and
Vice President Luis
Fabila Castillo. Jaime Álvarez and Humberto Sossa IPN
representatives for LACCIR.
Right picture with Genoveva Vargas-Solar hostess at
UDLA and Ricardo
Medina from Microsoft Mexico.
In both pictures Ignacio Casas, LACCIR Executive Director; Jaime Puente,
Director External Research Latin America, Microsoft Research; and Claudia Leiva,
LACCIR General Manager.
LACCIR
participation in the MSR Faculty Summit 2008 Redmond, Washington.
LACCIR Virtual Institute’s Executive Director Dr.
Ignacio Casas, and Board Director Dr. Sergio Ochoa presented the initiative and
its progress at the LATAM Day of the 2008 Microsoft Research Faculty summit (see agenda).
LACCIR
participation in the MSR Academic Summit 2008 Panama City, Panama.
The full Advisory Board met in Panama to hold the
second ABC Meeting and participate in the MSR LATAM Academic Summit 2008, for
more information click here.
The closing plenary session (see agenda) was all about
LACCIR and its first year achievements, at this time we had the opportunity to
show the LATAM Academic community what we’ve accomplished and what we are
looking forward to do in the next years. Also each LACCIR RFP2007 Winner
Project’s Principal Investigator had some time on stage to present their
projects to the audience.
May
2007, Second LACCIR Advisory Board Coordination Meeting.
Panama
City, Panama.
Follow up Meeting to the action plan released in
March.
March
2007, First LACCIR Advisory Board Coordination Meeting.
Santiago
Chile.
This Meeting was attended by at least one
representative of each Spoke Institution, Microsoft Research and IADB Supporters.
As a release from this meeting, an action plan
document for the years to come.