Hablando Con Julis

Hablando con Julis (HCJ) is a digital solution for people with communication difficulties. Recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of the Social Innovations of the Year in 2015, at the time of submission, this development had already reached more than 5,000 users in Latin America. Julis is a 24-year-old young woman who was […]

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LibreRouter

Community Networks have been depending since their inception on modifying existing of-the-shelf routers to adapt them to their particular needs. Software development in Community Network and the Free Software movement as a whole have pushed the barrier of innovation and helped commercial enterprises develop new products over the years. This virtuous relation between hardware vendors […]

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Mexicoleaks

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AgriNeTT

AgriNeTT is an e-Agriculture project which infuses ICT into the agriculture sector of Trinidad & Tobago to build a knowledge intensive agriculture economy. The project provides ICT tools for the farming community and agricultural institutions to help to drive economic growth of the agriculture sector and increase its competitiveness. The project aims to increase agricultural […]

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IPv6 Deployment

Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) is the largest university of Northern Argentina and its community includes more than 80,000 people. The project supported IPv6 deployment in the University’s networks.

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Protecting the TOR Network against Malicious Traffic

TOR is an overlay network that enables anonymous communication between applications that communicate over TCP. This network serves hundreds of thousands of users, allowing them to decide when they wish to be identified, thus keeping their online data from being tracked and protecting the privacy of their activities against third-party tracking attempts. Despite being used […]

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BGP Security in RENATA’s Infrastructure

RENATA is Colombia’s National Academic Network of Advanced Technology. The goal of the project was to implement origin validation for BGP routes in RENATA’s network backbone, which provides interconnection services to SNCTI in Colombia and the rest of the world. Specifically, the project  focused on the major exchange points in Bogotá which provides connectivity to […]

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Amazon Digital Radio Network

The goal of the project was to provide digital communication infrastructure for traditional communities of isolated rural areas in Acre State, in the Amazon region of Brazil. This project is the continuation of a UNESP program by which, in 2015, five High Frequency (HF) radio stations where installed inside the Alto Juruá Reserve in communities […]

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BIDYA: Digital and Accessible Library

The goal of BIDYA was to promote the inclusion and continuity in the formal education system of children, teenagers and young people with visual disabilities, guaranteeing equal opportunities for the visually impaired in Uruguay. The limited availability of study material in braille, audio, electronic, or extended character format is one of the greatest difficulties visually […]

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Mapeo Digital

There are more than 300 informal settlements in the metropolitan area of Guatemala. The goal of the Digital Mapping project was to design a crowdsourcing solution to identify risk factors and vulnerable urban areas, and test this solution in a number of pilot settlements. The mapping tool was developed and applied to 4 settlements. Information […]

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