RedCLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas

RedCLARA -Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks)- is a non-profit International Law Organisation, whose legal existence is dated on 23 December 2003, when it was acknowledged as such by the legislation of Uruguay. RedCLARA develops and operates the only Latin-American advanced Internet network. Established for regional interconnection and linked to GÉANT2 (pan European advanced network) in 2004 via the ALICE Project (which –until March 2008- was co-funded by the European Commission through its @LIS Programme), RedCLARA provides regional interconnection and connection to the world through its international links to GÉANT2 and Internet2 (USA) and, through them, to the advanced networks of the Caribbean (C@ribnet), Africa (UbuntuNet Alliance), Asia (APAN, TEIN), among others. Thanks to the ALICE2 Project, between December 2008 and March 2012, RedCLARA could significantly improve the capacity of its network and expand its benefits for its members and regional research communities. RedCLARA is constituted by 13 Latin American countries and its Assembly –where each country has representative- meets every six months to define courses of action and the policies to be implemented. The organisms of the RedCLARA institutional government are the Board (higher organisms constituted by: President, Vice president, Secretary, Treasurer and one Director), a Fiscal Commission (constituted by three Assembly members who are not Board members) and a Technical Commission (with seven members, corresponding to engineers from the networks connected to RedCLARA, oversees the network’s development and its technical and security implementations). The Executive Office is the organisms in charge of the Executive Direction of RedCLARA, a post under the trust of the Board and the Assembly.