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 productivity and incomes of small-scale farmers, in particular women and youth and family farmers. The AgriNeTT team has developed two Open Data platforms which serve as a repository for agriculture data sets from institutions and associations. Several mobile and web-based applications have been developed for the platform: AgriExpense – a farm financial management tool, AgriPrice – provides up-to-date data on market prices, AgriMaps – a Land Suitability tool which recommends preferred crops for various parcels of land, and AgriDiagnose – a pest and disease diagnosis system.
Hablando con Julis (Speaking with Julis) v 3.0 – Español e Inglés
Hablando con Julis (HCJ) is a technology solution for people with speaking, reading and writing difficulties. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as the Social Innovation of the Year, it has already reached more than 5,000 users in Latin America and shown great results. The idea was born as a result of a personal need: Julis is a 24 year old young woman who was born with a disability due to which she is unable to speak, so her family led the development of a technology that would allow her to communicate. This is how Hablando con Julis came to be. The HCJ solution allows anyone to communicate, improve their pronunciation, and learn to read and write in a short period of time. It works for people aged 3 to 85 with speech difficulties, Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, in cases of illiteracy, and for people who have lost their ability to speak due to an illness.
IPv6 deployment
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) is the largest university of Northern Argentina and its community includes more than 80,000 people. The Rector’s Office connects UNT to the Internet and has a Class C IPv4 block and a link provided by ARIU (the Association of Inter-University Networks), as well as a /48 IPv6 prefix. Currently, IPv6 implementation at UNT is limited to the WiFi network of the Herrera Center. Internet connectivity is provided by a tunnel broker (SixXS) using 6to4 encapsulation. UNT wants to address the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6, at first in one of the centers with the largest network infrastructure and then gradually migrate to other centers until the entire infrastructure is operating on native IPv6. The project seeks to (a) complete the overall design for IPv6 deployment at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, including the definition of an IPv6 addressing plan for all the centers that are part of the university; (b) research and develop laboratory prototypes for IPv6 addressing, routing and security solutions; (c) implement an IPv6 backbone between the Herrera Center and the Rector’s Office to provide connectivity via the global routing IPv6 prefix provided by ARIU; (d) deploy IPv6 in the Wi-Fi and wired networks of the Herrera Center; (e) test and continuously monitor the project once it is operational, and (f) conduct a feasibility study on IPv6 deployment in the rest of the institution.
BGP Security in RENATA’s Infrastructure
The project involves the implementation of 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 will focus on the major exchange points in Bogotá (which provides connectivity to the Clara Network) and in Barranquilla (which provides Internet connectivity). Initially, approximately 50% of the institutions connected to RENATA will participate. From a technical point of view, public key infrastructure for Internet resources (RPKI) will be implemented for all participating organizations, using the model for cryptographic validation (Route Origin Authorization) hosted by LACNIC. The project will cover both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Working towards the university of the future, RENATA is embarking on this project –the only one of its kind worldwide– in order to increase the region’s leadership in BGP security.
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 mainly to avoid online censorship in countries under dictatorial regimes, in a way, this anonymity network supports hidden services and allows drugs dealing, pedophilia, human trafficking, protecting botnets, sending SPAM, DDoS attacks, and other cybercrimes. In this context, the project seeks to provide a solution to the growing traffic of malicious code that is being sent over this network. The goal of the proposal is to research methods and techniques for protecting the Tor network against malicious traffic, while maintaining the privacy and anonymity of harmless traffic.
LibreRouter
Community Networks have been depending since their inception on modifying existing off-the-shelf routers to adapt them to their particular needs. Software development originated in Community Network groups and the Free Software movement as a whole have pushed the barriers of innovation and helped commercial enterprises develop new products over the years. This virtuous relation between hardware vendors and the community has been threatened by new regulation from the United States Federal Communications Commision (FCC), which has led vendors to globally close up their routers to third party modifications, hindering open innovation and effectively closing the door to Community Networks in terms of access to the hardware they depend on. The Libre Router project will design and produce a high performance multi-radio wireless router targeted at Community Networks’ needs. The reality of the Global South and that of Latin America in particular will be specially considered in terms of cost and legal viability.
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