COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA (CTCAP)

Created by CIECC at the request of the Central American countries and Panama, the CTCAP recently became Technical Secretariat of the Regional Science and Technology (at the ministerial level) Council, created under the new Protocol of Central American Integration, thus institutionalizing the structure of Central American integration in science and technology.

The Inter-university Hemispheric Network of Scientific and Technological Information (RedHUCyT)

The principal purpose of this project is to connect the countries of the region to INTERNET, thus forming a computerized network that researchers, professors and specialists from universities in the member States can use to share scientific and technological information. The United States has made a contribution to the network. The OAS effort focuses on designing and supporting regional steering mechanisms to organize, launch and operate computerized data sharing networks.

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