LACNIC’s IT Women project has announced the first six participants selected for the first edition of its mentoring program. This initiative seeks to strengthen the professional development of women who are part of the technical Internet community of Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting their involvement in LACNIC’s participation spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe mentoring program is a new initiative by IT Women which we are implementing for the first time in 2020. With this project we hope to bring a new generation of women in technology closer to LACNIC, to encourage them to produce knowledge on network management and the deployment of Internet standards in the region, and to motivate them to play a more active role within the LACNIC community,\u201d explained Carolina Caeiro, Development Project Coordinator at LACNIC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The women selected in this first edition of the program are Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Cresci Barrientos, Dalia Kelly Ter\u00e1n Ar\u00e9valo, Sanie Elizabeth Benitez, Yisel Elena Tamayo Betancourt, Vanessa de Oliveira Mello and Jaqueline Pereira da Silva, who submitted proposals to produce technical papers on various challenges, experiences and solutions for Internet stability and security. Each of these women will be supported by a mentor who is part of the technical community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project submitted by Jaqueline Pereira da Silva of Brazil is titled \u201cCase Study: Implementation of BGP RPKI Architecture in a Juniper Environment in the UFPR ASN to Verify Its Efficiency in Mitigating Information Security Threats.\u201d Wanda P\u00e9rez was assigned as her mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vanessa de Oliveira Mello of Brazil proposed a study on \u201cNetwork Automation: Idempotence in the Configuration of an AS.\u201d Carlos Mart\u00ednez will serve as her mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yisel Elena Tamayo Betancourt of Cuba presented a project titled \u201cModel for Availability Management and Control in the Automation of Technological Infrastructure Monitoring Processes.\u201d \u00c1lvaro Retana is her assigned mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanie Elizabeth Ben\u00edtez of Paraguay was selected to participate in the program with her initiative \u201cEnabling a New ASN and IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes and Distributing Them over a GPon Network.\u201d In her case, she will be supported by her mentor Max Larson Henry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dalia Kelly Ter\u00e1n Ar\u00e9valo of Colombia will be mentored by Nathalia Sautchuk, who will accompany her while she conducts her research titled \u201cAnalysis of IPv6 Information Network in a Virtualized Environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Cresci Barrientos of Uruguay will be researching \u201cSoftware Platforms and Protocols for Effective IoT Development\u201d and will be supported by her mentor Marcela Orbiscay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mentors will support their mentees in the production of their technical papers during the mentoring period, which will run from November 2020 to April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n