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Following in the footsteps of Informática
Scientific progresses and updates, experiences exchanging, and a opportunity to know how the State-of-the-Art technologies world is, not only in Cuba but in the rest of the world as well. These are the most important aspects that the 17th edition of the International Convention and Fair Informatica 2018 has to offer. Its academic events will be held from March 19th to 23rd, at Havana's Conference Center, and the main presentations of products and services will take place at PABEXPO's Fairgrounds.
According to Cecilia Valdés (Deputy Director of the Institutional Communication Directorate of the Cuban Communications Ministry) 13 events with different development levels will coexist in this edition of Informática; from the 1st Workshop on Digital Medical Records (coordinated by the Public Healthcare Ministry) to other events with more than 6 editions each. For example, the ones that deal with security issues, organized by the Informatics Advisory and Security Enterprise (Segurmática) or the entertainment and social networks events, which are arranged by the Computer Science and Electronics Joven Club (JCCE).
''Each one of them is a space of dynamic training, and every event updates its participants about the implementations, of what they exhibit, in the policy that aims to improve the Informatization Process of the Cuban Society. There will be a strong representation of every entity pertaining to Information Technologies (IT) sector in the country, like the National Software Enterprise (Desoft), as well as others that will carry out scientific events at the Convention, and present their newest products and services at the Fair. In this edition, the Cuba Stand will remain, this is the stand in which the main projects of the country are grouped in.'' She asserted.
On the official website of Informática 2018 it can be found that apart from the selected works at the events, around 70 lectures will be given. Also, 30 pre-congress and post-congress activities, more than 12 roundtables and 65 thematic panels will take place.
What does the Fair feature?
Amongst the events, there is the 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, which will deal with information systems and programming technologies; artificial intelligence and data science; and digital processing of signals and images.
Four international workshops will be held: the 1st International Workshop on Digital Medical Records, that will deal with topics regarding the availability, confidentiality, security, and protection of clinical data, and it will also be about the use of clinical information for planning medical resources.
Concerning the 5th workshop on Information and Communication Technologies, Clara Alonso Suárez (Advisor of the General Director of Desoft) stated that in this workshop some aspects will be debated on, some of those are the IT-Business alignment, the safe generation and exploitation of technologies focusing on organizational management and also at a governmental level; other elements that will be dealt with are knowledge management and organizational innovation. ''We will have panels, master lectures, and two round tables, one of them will be committed to the perspectives and challenges of the Cuban society Informatization process'', she explained.
The 8th International Workshop on ICT quality brings forward amongst its topics the techniques, metrics, and formalisms of software engineering. Likewise, the 8th International Workshop on Free Software and Open Source Technologies will focus on issues like the adoption of these types of technologies; the construction/customization of operating systems based on open sources; free software technologies, and Android and mobile free operating systems.
There will also be three International Congresses; the 18th Congress of Informatics in Education, with a special focus on the use of Information and Communication Technologies in basic education; it will also deal with virtual pedagogy and education; Digital TV, education, and culture. The 8th Congress of Multimedia Contents and Technologies will go further into matters like Multimedia and Transmedia; arts and technologies in the media; and the new business models in the digital era of contents, like e-commerce. Also, the 10th International Congress of Geomatics 2018 will bring us closer to geodesy and applied topography; cartography and spatial databases; marine studies; and this science itself focused on the environment and tourism.
At the same time three symposiums will take place; the 8th Symposium on Telecommunications, in which several aspects will be analyzed: networks convergence, services and voice, data and video applications; wired and wireless telecommunication networks; and radio-transmitter and radio-receptor systems. Another important event will be the 6th Symposium on Electronics: design, applications, advanced techniques, and current challenges, about it professor Enrique Valdés, from the School of Telecommunications and Electronics of the Technologic University of Havana José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), explained that the main goal of this event is to create an appropriate scenario for discussing current scientific projects in which academic institutions, research centers, and production-oriented entities can be involved in.
''We will present topics like the design of integrated circuits, systems, and electronic equipments; reconfigurable hardware and virtual instrumentation; sensors and their applications; emerging alternative technologies for producing devices, and microelectronic and nanoelectronic sensors; teaching of electronics, microelectronics, and nanoelectronics'', he assured.
Organized by the directorate of Joven Club the 6th International Symposium of Community, Entertainment and Social Networks ''brings five thematic guidelines related to the impact of social networks on the management of content for society; informatics solutions for the community and ICTs at the service of the development of communities.
Also, ICTs in the entertainment content development process, a branch that we have worked on for the last years; the potentialities of creating an ICT culture, because of the fact that from the creation of the wi-fi connection areas, we have been concerned with the ethical and safe use of the network in the different communities.
At the Fair we will be presenting products and services on a daily basis, and we have proposals for two projects in the Cuba Stand, one of them is the video gaming portal Ludox'', stated Glendis López Rodríguez, Director of Informatization of Joven Club.
At the Convention, the 13th Ibero-American Seminar on Information Technologies Security will be taking place, in which several topics will be dealt with, like Cybersecurity, antivirus, and networks, systems applications security. Another important event that will be happening at the Convention is the 2nd International Meeting about the History of Informatics and Computer Science in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this event the most important aspects will be the personnel training in this field; the establishment of national policies regarding this sector; and the evolution and perspectives of e-government and the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean.
These fragments were taken from Juventud Rebelde.
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