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Health Online Indicators in LAC: Access to Safe and Affordable Health Solutions Using the Internet – Study on Telemedicine and Purchase of Medicines Online

The “Health Online Indicators” project will present, in an easily readable form, five indicators that can help enable access to safe and affordable health solutions using the Internet in LAC. The information that will be part of this dataset will be taken from various national laws, executive orders, communications from national authorities, and academic research. So, while the data mostly exists already, it is neither properly organized nor accessible.

Once these indicators are compiled, they can be used to: inform policymakers on the broader situation of Latin America so then can coordinate (or compare with) the situation in their own jurisdictions; to provide data for the creation of maps, statistics, and other reference materials; and to serve as a starting point for discussions on health-related topics in Internet Governance spaces. The ultimate goal is to bring data-driven research on this matter to our region, in order to generate a productive debate.

Segur@s en línea

The purpose of this initiative is to increase the visibility of online gender violence through open data, as well as to create a campaign to promote active and informed citizen engagement that will allow people to participate in the formulation of effective public policies that address prevention, education, and punishment, always within a framework of respect for international human rights standards.

The project adopts a regional perspective to unite the efforts of interested parties in the different countries and create a stronger campaign, considering common aspects of the problem. Segur@s en línea considers launching a platform to compile information resources for human rights activists, students, and anyone interested in the subject in general, as well as guidelines for reporting online gender violence in accordance with each country’s legislation and with the help of legal professionals.

VE without Filters

Venezuela without Filters (VSF by its Spanish acronym) is a project that seeks to defend digital rights in Venezuela.

To do this, it takes advantage of existing studies and recognized research results to document and obtain critical information on the scale of cyberattacks sponsored by the Venezuelan government against dissidents, independent media, and civil society organizations and activists, trying to identify government surveillance efforts and strengthening documentation on Internet censorship and network interference.

The results of the research conducted by VSF contain real-time updates on the status of the Internet in Venezuela, including detailed technical explanations of the blocks that have occurred in the country, and are published in both English and Spanish. The findings of this work are used to issue recommendations and share best practices for protecting digital rights. They can also be used by trainers and professionals working on digital security in the civic space.

Technical Implementation of DNSSEC for .py

This project proposes carrying out the technical implementation phase for DNSSEC deployment for zones delegated under the .py ccTLD; promoting the use of DNSSEC in the name servers managed by Telecommunications Service Providers, Web Hosting Providers and Paraguayan Government Agencies Organizations; and setting the stage for conducting education and information campaigns related to the used and importance of DNSSEC.
The implementation plan considers the use of open-source tools and intends to adopt a design that is simple enough to be adopted to meet the requirements of other ccTLDs, for example, ccTLDs that decentralize the management of their second-level domains can leave the technical implementation for certain segments pending until a later date.

Understanding the impacts of Remote Peering on Internet routing

Our project aims to analyze Remote Peering (RP) deployment at Latin American IXPs and investigate its implications to Internet routing. By understanding the RP usage and its impacts on the control and data planes, we expect to provide transparency on which networks are remote at IXPs and help operators to assess the tradeoffs of RP and of exchanging traffic with remotely connected ASes.
Besides, we plan to examine the temporal evolution of RP at IXPs, further understanding its adoption rate and the characteristics of networks using it. We plan to provide a web portal containing reports and analyses about remote interfaces deployment, the prefixes announced via RP, characteristics related to RP performance (i.e., latency), and routing anomalies cases (i.e., detours) caused by remote connections. With this knowledge, we expect operators to better understand the prevalence and consequences of RP at IXPs, thus improving the Internet routing ecosystem.

DDoS Attack Identification and Mitigation in Software-Defined Networks for IoT

The mitigation of cyberattacks using emerging technologies such as SDN and NFV has not been sufficiently studied. The purpose of this research is to identify and characterize the main attacks that can occur in new-generation network architectures that include IoT devices, and to design strategies that will allow the rapid deployment of high-level security policies in the network using SDN and NFV.

It is estimated that improving the security of Latin American companies will have a positive impact on the region’s competitiveness and economic growth, as the increased security of technological infrastructure will attract a larger number of foreign companies to the region. This project is regional in its scope, as it is the work of Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), the University of Antioquia (Colombia), and Antioqueña Inorks S.A.S., a company specializing in new-generation network security.

Internet Measurements in One Country for Regional Connectivity, Latency, and Stability Studies

Based on the study presented by LACNIC in early 2021 titled “Connectivity in the LAC Region: 2020,” this project will conduct an in-depth study of connectivity in Panama, its latency, and peering agreements between Panamanian providers and autonomous BGP systems, including information on each of the country’s ten provinces.

The study will allow obtaining real-time information on Internet latency and traffic routes across Panama, even in case of events such as fiber line cuts, IP outages, mass regional electricity incidents, submarine fiber cable cuts, and others. This will have a direct impact on the operational and commercial relationships between the different Panamanian ISPs and operators, creating synergies between them and making it possible to raise the need to optimize the country’s internal interconnections and international outbound connections to ensure the proper functioning of low-latency sensitive applications such as Smart Cities, IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Cloud Computing throughout the national territory, and creating the opportunity to extend this synergy to neighboring countries.

Implementing a CoAP Proxy in the Contiki-NG Operating System for 6LoWPAN Networks

The general objective of the project is to implement the proxy feature for the CoAP protocol in the Contiki-NG operating system. This will contribute to the development of the Contiki-NG open-source project, allowing academia, companies, and government agencies to use this feature in embedded devices without the need for additional hardware and robust software libraries such as Californium for Java, CoAP.NET for C#, or CoAPthon for Python.

This development has a global impact, as it offers an interoperable infrastructure for various contexts, mainly agriculture, to establish smart and precise agriculture practices that will allow reducing crop damages and their environmental footprint, thus improving productivity and decision-making.

Caribbean IXP Directory and Traffic Monitoring

The objective of this project is to develop repository of information about the Caribbean IXPs. This repository will be the place to share are find information about the IXPs in the Caribbean Region including details such as contact information, location and IXP traffic statistics. This multi- country project seeks to bridge the information deficient gap to ensure that information about the Caribbean IXPs is accurately captured, up to date, and available to network operators, researchers, and policy makers. The project includes a measurement component to monitor the regions IXP traffic, to study the regional IXP traffic trends and present information on the state of interconnection in the region using readily available, open source IXP traffic management and IXP traffic presentation tools.

Rural Community Internet

Soluciones Tecnológicas TW has managed to expand Internet access by deploying its own infrastructure and wireless links in marginalized areas of the southern state of Yucatán, where most of the communities do not have access to mobile telephony, let alone access to Internet services. As a strategic component and for the purpose of optimizing the use of our own resources and benefitting the poorer communities, hotspots were deployed in 20 indigenous communities so that the population would not need to invest in infrastructure but would still be able to access the Internet.

Since 2017, the rural locations that have benefited from this project are the police stations in Peto, Tzucacab, and Chacsinkin. The Internet service that has been provided has helped basic (preschool, primary, secondary) and upper-middle (Telebachiller) schools to have better tools and therefore access to better teaching-learning opportunities.