Colombia | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
shauna.peterson 2014-05-15
Summary:
"The National Academic Network of Advanced Technology (Red Nacional Académica de Tecnología Avanzada-RENATA) -with support from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies (Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones), the Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación Nacional) and COLCIENCIAS- is actively promoting open access in Colombia and in the region, and organizingtraining activities for institutional repositories, and a prize for institutional repositories. RENATA is also the national focal point of RedCLARA in Colombia, and, together with COLCIENCIAS and the Ministry of Education, they are the national representatives of Colombia in the Latin America Network of Institutional Repositories National Systems (Red Federada Latinoamericana de Repositorios Institucionales de Documentación Científica). Colombia has also members in CoLaBoRa, the Latin America Community of Digital Libraries and Repositories. In both those regional open access coordination activities, institutions from Colombia have been the main promoters and coordinators, with leadership from RENATA and from the University of Rosario."