ALICE

Welcome to the ALICE website

The ALICE (America Latina Interconectada Con Europa) project is co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the @LIS Programme, which was launched to stimulate the creation and development of the Information Society in Latin America. In Latin America, intra-regional connectivity is currently not developed. There is also no organised connectivity between the Pan-European research network, GÉANT, and the national research and education networks in Latin America. ALICE will address these limitations and will foster research and education collaborations and advancement within Latin America and between Latin America and Europe.

The ALICE project implements the recommendations of the CAESAR study. The EC funded CAESAR study was carried out by DANTE between March and October 2002 and investigated the feasibility of a Latin American regional research network interconnecting the Latin American national research and education networks to GÉANT. CAESAR concluded that there is a real demand for such connectivity and that the creation of a regional Latin American network is technically feasible.

ALICE is partnered by 17 Latin American and four European national research networks and CLARA, the Latin American Co-operation for Advanced Networks. CLARA is an international not for profit organisation registered inUruguay. The objective of CLARA is to promote the co-operation among the Latin American NRENs to foster scientific and technological development. It is anticipated that CLARA will develop into DANTE's counterpart in Latin America and will take responsibility for the future of Latin American research networking activities. It is expected that the intra-regional Latin American research network and its direct connection to the pan-European research network, GÉANT will be operational in the beginning of 2004. ALICE will last
until the end of April 2006.

'The European Commission funds Latin American Research Networking' - EC press release, 3 June 2003 - English | Spanish | Portuguese
'Integrating Latin American and European Research and Education Networks through the ALICE project', Conference Paper and Presentation by Michael Stanton and Cathrin Stover, CLEI 2003, La Paz, Bolivia, 29 September - 2 October 2003
Partners: Links to all Partners in the ALICE project
Brochure (A4, 8 pages), provides information about the IP research network infrastructure which will be developed within the Latin American region and towards Europe. Text is in English, Spanish and Portuguese (2 pages each); pdf version | order form for hard copies
Documents: For ALICE partners only
Links to related research networking projects: GÉANT | EUMEDCONNECT | SEEREN

About

@LIS, Alliance for the Information Society, is a cooperation programme with Latin America aiming to promote the information society and fight the digital divide throughout Latin America. Adopted in 2001, the @LIS programme has a budget of 77.5 million euros of which 63.5 million euros will be financed by the European Commission. @LIS covers a wide spectrum of objectives aiming at creating a long-term partnership between the two regions in the field of the Information Society. It focuses on the following activities: a dialogue on policy and regulatory aspects, the development of standards, the implementation of demonstration projects in favour of the civil society, a network of regulators and the interconnection of research centers. Further information at: http://europa.eu.int/alis.

The ALICE project is technically assisted by DG information Society Research Infrastructure.

For more information on ALICE, please contact DANTE's Public Relations Manager