The Iberoamerican Network of Educational Informatics was created as a project and strategic area of the CYTED Program - Science and Technology for Development, constituted by government units from the countries belonging to Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. These units are usually the coordinating entities of Science and Technology for each country; in other cases they are Ministries or Secretariats that form part of the main government.
The general aim of RIBIE, since its inception, has been to improve Education in the Iberoamerican context, by means of Technologies of Information and Communication. Since it was created, in 1990, under the Subprogram of Applied Electronics and Informatics of CYTED, RIBIE looks for ways of integrating the 21 member countries in developing actions that capitalize identification and exchange among research and development groups in the area of Informatics, as applied to Education. Each country has a coordinating delegate, who attends the meetings of RIBIE and a number of associated groups.
Thus, RIBIE has become a permanently active network of communication and cooperation among Iberoamerican countries. Through the member groups, RIBIE pursuits generating actions of multilateral cooperation and technical innovation in Educational Informatics; in order to meet the needs of each participating country; using this area, in turn, as strategic tool for the social and cultural development.
Parallel to these goals, RIBIE promotes the scientific, technical and methodological qualification of people through activities such as: workshops, seminars and dissemination of experiences, results and products of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT), as applied to Education. In this respect, RIBIE has accomplished a number of courses and workshops in Caracas, Panama City, Managua, San José of Costa Rica, Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Arequipa. RIBIE has also administered other courses at national levels, promoted by the nodes in each country. A few more courses within the frame of the international congresses have also taken place.
Another main goal of RIBIE is to organize and support events that promote the cooperation and exchange of scientific and technological ideas, offering the Iberoamerican communities access to the advances in research and production in the context of Educational Informatics. As a strategy to attain this goal, the Association has established a plenary Congress which is held every two years, in which the efforts of all the member delegates are summoned, in order to achieve the most complete coverage and highest quality of the contributions presented for discussion.
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