Preselected projects 2024

Grants

Network Architecture and Operation Monitoring theme

• Comprehensive and intelligent management of network infrastructures through reinforcement learning; University of Antioquia (Colombia).

Cryptography, Security and Resilience theme

• High Performance Computing and Machine Learning Cluster for Cybersecurity Innovation, through the Application of Cryptographic Password Strength Tests; Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva (Peru).
• Detection of DDoS and Ransomware attacks on real business networks and servers using Artificial Intelligence models; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico).
• Detection of ransomware in network traffic and servers using Artificial Intelligence models; Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (Ecuador).
• Development of artificial intelligence models for attack detection based on data available on the LACNIC Honeynet; Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).

Future Development of the Internet theme

• Contribution to an informed discussion of public policies that impact the architecture of the Internet and promote its fragmentation; Latin American Internet Association – ALAI (Uruguay).

Use and Application of Blockchain Technology for Internet Stability and Security

Cryptography, Security and Resilience theme

• Open Source Document Holder for Diploma Project Certificates with Decentralized Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials; NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY – VILLA MARIA REGIONAL FACULTY (Argentina).
• Issuance of Academic Certificates as NFTs on Public Blockchain using ERC1155; Rumiñahui University Technological Institute – (ISTER) (Ecuador).

Traffic Engineering and Interconnection theme

• BGP Routing Security: Validated ROA Payload on blockchain in real scenarios; NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SAN JUAN – FACULTY OF ENGINEERING – COMPUTING INSTITUTE (IDECOM) (Argentina).

Grants

Internet Connectivity theme

• Nanum: Building community networks; SUNU INTERCULTURAL ACTION GROUP (Paraguay).
• Inclusive Connectivity for the Digital Transformation of the Kichwa indigenous and rural communities of the “Chakra, Chocolate and Tourism” route in Napo, Ecuador; Ecuadorian Trust for Development Cooperation – FECD (Ecuador).
• Building Digital Bridges: Internet Connectivity for the Eastern Region of the Dominican Republic; Luz Brillante Comprehensive Center (Dominican Republic).

Strategies for Strengthening ISPs theme

• Connectivity in Vaca Muerta, Argentina; Flashband SRL (Argentina).

Awards

Internet Connectivity theme

• Soldati Conectada: Community Network of Optical Fiber Internet in Popular Neighborhoods; Civil Association El Hormiguero (Argentina).

Internet Access for a Quality Service theme

• First 100% public, neutral, open and transparent exchange point in Chile; PIT CHILE SPA (Chile).

Grants

Digital Inclusion theme

• Wiki Climate Observatory; Wikimedia User Group in Brazil (Brazil).
• Transforming the world of work: women in the digital industry; Sulá Batsú Cooperative (Costa Rica).
• TEALS: Schools of technological literacy in Ciudad Juárez; Axcel Foundation A.C., (Mexico).
• Digital media to bridge digital gaps, for the inclusion of young people with disabilities; Bolivian Center for Multidisciplinary Studies – CEBEM (Bolivia).
• Lights and Shadows in Cyberspace; Ilumina Sueños Foundation (Chile).
• Tec Para Todos: Amplifying Digital Inclusion for Economic Empowerment among Rural & Indigenous Women in the Sierra Otomí-Tepehua-Nahua, Mexico; Psychology and human rights, PSYDEH, A.C. (Mexico).
• RLK: a digital inclusion strategy for rural communities in Latin America; Corporación Frutos de Utopía (Colombia).
• Light yourself up with care; Ilumina Sueños Foundation (Chile).
• New opportunities for the present and the future: reducing the digital gap by strengthening the Misiones Maker Spaces Network; Government of the Province of Misiones through the Ministry of Finance, Public Works and Services and the Misiones Robotics School (Argentina).
• Empowering women through ICTs: Comprehensive training and professional development program for residents in inland areas of Uruguay, Chile and Colombia; Abstracta SAS (Uruguay).
• Digital Empowerment: Comprehensive Training for Inclusion and Employability in Latin America; Technology with Purpose Foundation (Argentina).
• INDIGITAL 2.0: Indigenous digital participation in Oaxaca through appropriation of digital rights and access to information in native languages; Surco, University Services and Knowledge Networks in Oaxaca, AC. (Mexico).
• Inclusive connection: satellite internet for the empowerment of the Zenú indigenous woman; Ecoceanos Corporation (Colombia).
• Empowering students of the Institution in ICT, as a tool to strengthen their life project, through STEAM; Francisco de Paula Santander Educational Institution, (Colombia).

The Internet and Human Rights theme

• Internet in signs: strengthening digital capacities for the Peruvian deaf community; Hiperderecho (Peru).
• Health Messaging System – ChatMed; Fundación Movimiento Contra el Cáncer (Nicaragua).
• Dish of the day – The food of digital care; Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais (Brazil).
• I learn by doing: Digital skills for the integration of migrants returning to Mexico; Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico).
• From citizenship to citizenhood: digital care to accompany children and youth in the clinic; Asociación Civil El Faro Digital (Argentina).
• Utopia: an open source tech stack for independent media outlets in Latam; la diaria (Uruguay).
• Segur@s en Línea: Exploring digital gender violence in university environments in Central America; Instituto Panamericano de Derecho y Tecnología – IPANDETEC (Panama).
• Applications for teaching and learning indigenous languages ​​of peoples in Brazil; Nheengatu app (Brazil).
• DIGITAL SKILLS 50+; Makaia International Consulting Corporation (Colombia).
• CRAVO – Online Violence Reference and Support Center; Instituto de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia do Recife (IP.rec) (Brazil).

Awards

Digital Inclusion theme

• InteliGente: Building Paths of Equality with Artificial Intelligence; Federal University of Technology-Paraná (Brazil).

The Internet and Human Rights theme

• Prevention and support for children, adolescents, mothers, fathers and caregivers of digital violence; Cultivating Gender AC (Mexico).
• Venezuela Digital Segura; Corporación Cambio Sostenible (Colombia).

Grants

• Virtual Support Assistant for Community Networks and Small ISPs in Brazil; Associação Portal Sem Porteiras (Brazil).
• TinyML for Anomaly Detection using Programmable Data Planes in Software Defined Network Architecture; National Institute for Telecommunications Research and Training – INICTEL-UNI (Peru).
• DETECTION OF DDoS ATTACKS IN COMPUTER NETWORKS BASED ON A JOINT STACKING ARCHITECTURE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS; Universidad del Norte (Colombia).
• FEDERATED LEARNING ON A COMPUTER NETWORK APPLYING A HOMOMORPHIC CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHM; Universidad del Norte (Colombia).
• PentestGenIA: A solution through intelligent agents trained in LLMs for the execution of Automated Pentests in a web environment; Instituto Atlântico (Brazil).
• An AIOps approach based on intelligent agents powered by LLMs for network diagnosis and operation; Instituto Atlântico (Brazil).