Brazil is the leading economy in South America, representing the 8th largest economy in the world. The EU is its main trading partner and foreign direct investor. The relationship between Brazil and the EU on research and innovation is governed by the Agreement for Scientific and Technological Cooperation signed in 2004.
It’s the ambition to shape cloud developments in both Brazil and Europe by bringing insights into current market trends, challenges slowing down mainstream adoption of cloud services and best practices to address them.
European and Brazilian Research Innovation Action cloud computing project ATMOSPHERE (Adaptive, Trustworthy, Manageable, Orchestrated, Secure Privacy-assuring Hybrid, Ecosystem for REsilient Cloud Computing), presented a new framework that increases the privacy protection of anonymized information manipulated by data analytics platforms at the EDCC 2018 (European Dependable Computing Conference) last September in Romania.
ATMOSPHERE was invited by RNP to showcase the projects goals and work at Forum RNP 2018 and in the RNP webinar “ICT Cooperation on Cloud Computing” (Cooperação TIC sobre computação em nuvem).
As one of the key projects under the 4th EU-Brazil Coordinated Call of joint research projects and as the custodian of the EUBrazilCloudForum's legacy of organising the biannual Cloudscape Brazil conference, ATMOSPHERE is at the heart of European-Brazilian science diplomacy initiatives.
European-Brazilian cloud project ATMOSPHERE will be featured next week at the Digital Infrastructures for Research 2018 (DI4R 2018) in Lisbon, Portugal.
Brazil's National Internet of Things (IoT) plan was launched in April and is a national government strategy to develop IoT capability in health, smart cities, agribusiness and manufacturing.
Cloudscape Brazil 2018 and WCN took place last 25-26 July 2018, bringing together European and Brazilian experts on ICT topics from research, industry and policy. The event promoted business partnerships between EU-BR SMEs and Researchers, but also discussed how EU and Brazil will work together to exploit a joint-digital market and be an active player in worldwide landscape. Below 15 takeways from from the event. Read them all! :)
With the conclusion of the 2018 edition of the Cloudscape Brazil and Workshop on Cloud Networks (WCN) held last 25-26 July 2018, the fields of trustworthy cloud computing, 5G, artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, smart cities, and e-health have been enriched with new insights from Europe and Brazil's leading experts in their respective fields, with the publication of the event report and position papers.
GÉANT, Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education, and RedCLARA, the Latin American Research and Education Network, today announced the signing of an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) contract with EllaLink, for spectrum on a direct submarine cable connecting Europe and Latin America.