Get to know the voice of the Coordinator of the Point IP Television Work Group, WG-IPTV, and member of the University of the Cauca (RENATA). Read this and other interviews in the book “RedCLARA: Name, voice and instrument of collaboration in Latin America”.

What do you think has been your Work Group’s major contribution to the community of Latin American academic networks and to RedCLARA?
The work group for IPTV streaming technologies contributed to the development of a content distribution platform that enables RedCLARA’s member institutions to have a tool to disseminate their audiovisual content and their live events. The platform works with IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, contributing to the use of the new IPv6 addressing. Thanks to the support from RENATA and RedCLARA, we disseminated the knowledge acquired through courses delivered over the RedCLARA Aprende platform (RedCLARA learns). It is now possible to have a platform that works in a distributed and collaborative way; bringing synergies together even to support a dissemination activity.

What do you think has been RedCLARA’s contribution to Latin America?
RedCLARA facilitates the encouragement for the creation and development of academic networks in Latin America; it contributes to the academic and research communities with infrastructure, services and cooperation between this huge community.

What is the key important aspect of CLARA-TEC for you and your network?
This is the place to learn firsthand, through the voice of the technical leaders of each research and education network, about the news and activities in every network, since none of them is static; furthermore, the exchange of technical experiences and the huge contribution to knowledge by means of training courses.

For the work group it represents an opportunity to disseminate advances in the topics developed by each group, discuss what has been done, and plan activities to benefit the technical and academic community.

How important is for your Work Group the collaboration established within CLARA-TEC and through it with national and regional networks?
In CLARA-TEC I have always found people who, from their own areas of knowledge, have made great contributions to the development of group activities; you can feel the true collaboration with their infrastructures and staff to conduct tests and maintain the national and regional services.

Thanks a lot for all the contributions made by CLARA-TEC participants to the work group and for all the contributions to be surely made; thanks a lot for the opportunities given to the work group to attend important network meetings, be updated on what is being done in the field of the group’s topic and bringing all that knowledge to incorporate it into the development of the activities of the work group.

If RedCLARA did not exist, what do you think the technical development scenario in the region would be like?
There would be regional connections, a few between one country and another and a few international ones, and project initiatives, but implemented independently.

From your point of view, what should be the role of RedCLARA over the next five years?
From my point of view, making efforts to have its own communications infrastructure, expanding the portfolio of basic services offered to the community and finding, through projects and services that benefit the community, a sustainable funding model for the development of its activities.