IP: Re: Invest your pesos with care

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Invest your pesos with care
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:27:08 -0500
> From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>
>
>
> [Followup to the pesos note -- for IP if you think of value]
>
> Useful note on the Latin American e-Commerce Summit.  As you know,
> ACM SIGCOMM is also getting experience in Latin America, on the research
> side.  We're hosting a workshop on data communications research in
> Latin America this spring (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm-la/index.html).
>
> We're finding it an exciting process -- there's tremendous enthusiasm from
> the research community in Latin America and from the government (our
> keynote speaker is Jose Maria Figueres, the former president of Costa Rica
> and now chair of the UN Information and Communication Technologies Advisory
> Group; the Costa Rican Ministry of Information is a co-sponsor) and
> corporate world (Cisco has been generous; other companies with a Latin
> American presence are expressing interest in co-sponsorship).
>
> At the same time there are challenges -- most notably the shortage of
> money for researchers.  We're seeing talented professors who lack the money
> to get themselves to the workshop, much less their graduate students.
> Another interesting experience was that we decided to make the conference
> bi-lingual: we accepted papers in either Spanish or English, and arranged
> to translate each paper, so there's a version in Spanish and English.
> One odd side effect is we've caused ACM to have to reprogram the ACM
> Digital Library to support the Spanish character set for titles.
>
> Craig Partridge
> Chair ACM SIGCOMM



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