Rio de Janeiro '06
Leapfrogging the Infrastructure in Latin America
• English | Español | Portuguese
• Dates: April 45, 2006
• Location: FIRJAN, Avenida Graça Aranha 1 - Centro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Conference Agenda
Articles & Proceedings
• Best-Practices Sharing in the Marvelous City
• Doing for Ourselves: Sud Mennucci, Brazil
General-Session Panels
- Technology Update
“What networks for what applications?”
- Regulatory Frameworks and Policies
“ Establishing Local-Government Advisory Services”
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Funding for Multipurpose Networks
Case Study Panels and Structured Brainstorm Workshops
- Rural Digital Inclusion (distance learning, title registration, remote healthcare, etc.)
- Streamlining e-Government (government process reengineering, workforce productivity, community services, etc.)
- Emergency Response and Public Safety
Latin America in the News
Large WiMAX Expansion Seen for Brazil
There will be 768,000 accumulated BWA/WIMAX subscribers in Brazil by 2010, of which two thirds will be WiMAX, according to a report from Maravedis called "BWA/WiMAX Brazilian Market Analysis." This new report, the first of a series that will include reports on Russia, India and other countries, provides an in-depth review of the broadband wireless and WiMAX markets and regulatory activity taking place in Brazil.
• Source: (Wimaxxed.com, April 3, 2006)
Intel kicks off low-cost PC effort in Mexico
Intel Corp. and a Mexican telecom are partnering to sell a less expensive desktop PC designed for first-time computer users in developing countries. It will use a low-power Intel processor running either the Linux operating system or Microsoft Corp.'s XP Starter Edition, a stripped down version of the Microsoft OS for poorer countries.
• Source: (PC World, March 31, 2006, Jeremy Kirk)
Fon: A Billionaire Wi-Fi Utopian
Few start-ups encapsulate the desperate utopianism of the times so much as Fon Technology. Created by the Argentinian dot.com billionaire Martin Varsavsky, who built and sold the Spanish portal Ya.com and ISP Jazztel before the bubble burst, at the heart of Fon is a soulful of hope.
• Source: (The Register, 12 February 2006)
Air-Span Building WiMAX in Rural Colombia
Wireless access and VoIP systems provider Airspan Networks Inc. announced on Monday it was chosen by the Consortium Union Temporal (COLDECON) for the deployment of a large-scale broadband rural access project in Colombia. The news follows a similar deployment in the Dominican Republic recently completed by Airspan and BEC Telecom S.A.
• Source: (TMC Net, 9 January 2006)
Korea's Samsung Brings WiMAX to Venezuela
Samsung, the South Korean Telecom and Chip giant, will collaborate with the Venezuelan pay-TV and telecommunications operator Omnivision C.A to roll out its Mobile WiMAX technology WiBRO. With the network established, Omnivision plans begin offering service from the fourth quarter of 2006 in Caracas and will expand the network to seven of the major cities over three years.
• Source: (Sify Broadband Techwack, 20 December 2005)
Setting UMTS Standards in Brazil
Latin America must license 3G within harmonised spectrum in line with the region's economic and social needs.Speaking at this week's Futurecom 2005 event in Florianopolis, Brazil, the Chairman of the UMTS Forum outlined the benefits of 3G/UMTS for bringing affordable IMT-2000 mobile/cellular services to Brazil and the Latin American region. As well as maintaining technology neutrality in the 3G licensing process, urged Jean-Pierre Beinaime, administrations in the region must respect need for hamonised spectrum, licensing 3G operators where applicable in the core 2GHz-IMT-2000 band.
• Source: (UMTS Forum, 26 October 2005)
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Program Committee
Chair
Fernando Peregrino
• State Secretary, Rio de Janeiro State
Co-Chair
Ana Hofmann
Executive Director, Petrópolis-Tecnópolis
Maurizio Zanin
• National Confederation of Municipalities (BRA)
Arthur Ziviani
• Computer Science National Laboratory (BRA)
Axel Leblois
• Executive Director, CIFAL Atlanta (USA)
Clovis Battista
• Citel
Arthur Aragão
•FINEP (BRA)
Tereza Porto
•PRODERJ (BRA)
Pedrito Rocha
•FAPERJ (BRA)
Oswaldo Guimaraez
•FIRJAN (BRA)
Jean Claude Frajmund
Edson Soffiati
•Star One
Max Leite
•Intel
Mauirzio Moscatelli
•IBM
Joeval Martins
•Motorola
Gus Basualdo
•Alvarion
Sheila Burpee-Duncan
•BelAir Networks
Sérgio Cabral Cavalcanti
• IdeaValley
Eduardo Levi
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