Por allá en 1993 presenté en la Conferencia de Internet Society
(INET´93) un artículo que resumía los esfuerzos de cooperación
en la región para conectar a las redes académicas y sin fines
de lucro. Aparecen nombres de instituciones protagonistas de
aquella etapa. Existe la versión en español que no tengo a la
mano y que pondré a disposición si es de interés.

El abstract es el siguiente:
There is an ongoing process of integration of academic networks
in Latin American and Caribbean countries. This paper analyzes
how different factors have shaped this process and explains the
main conclusions of a recent meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico
(November 1992). This process has gone through several stages
of maturity for over four years and it can be said that it has
not followed patterns of development observed in other regions
of the world. The evolution of the effort for connecting and
organizing the networks of the region is seen through the
results of the different meetings where their actors and
promoters have confronted their goals against the facts that
condition them. There have been five regional meetings devoted
to this goal (from San Jose, Costa Rica, in 1989 to Guadalajara,
Mexico, in 1992). The stages can be associated with several
factors, one of them is the development of the national
initiatives; some countries have more than one network
pretending to cover the academic community and in many
cases these initiatives have conflicts among them. Another
factor is the support of that these initiatives have from
their national councils for science and technology; some are
officially backed by their governments while others are still
fighting to be recognized or at least to be considered as a
helpful tool for the academic sector. The participation of
organizations external to the region and interested on
promoting the integration process (Organization of American
States, FUNDESCO, National Science Foundation, UNESCO, UNDP,
etc.) has also played a decisive role in it. The initiatives
of the region led to the decision, at the last meeting of
academic networks for Latin America and the Caribbean, to
create an open forum devoted to monitoring the process.
The evaluation will be done during the annual gathering.
The achievement of the defined goals will be checked against
the development of specific tasks associated with the
established strategies.

La versión completa está en:
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/networking/inet93.html

LG

PD: Notarán que en ese entonces ni siquiera ISOC ponía las
ponencias en el web. Ese instrumento estaba por explotar
como herramienta de difusión y lo haría en 1994.
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