La Seguridad en internet

El grupo Guatemala de la Región de Waterloo los invita a  la presentación sobre "La Seguridad en  internet" 

el Sábado 7 de Febrero del 2015,  a las 2 de la tarde  en la Biblioteca Publica de Waterloo, "Waterloo Public Library, Main Library, Auditorium" 35 Albert Street, Waterloo.

(Accesible usando el transporte público autobuses que circulan en King street #5, #35, todas las rutas  #7 incluyendo el iXpress). Amplio estacionamiento gratis en la parte baja de la biblioteca adyacente a Caroline St. y dos horas gratis en el centro comercial donde se en cuentra el Value Mart.

¿Puede su navegador web guardar un secreto?

La plática será presentada  por Ronaldo Garcia,  miembro del grupo de apoyo a la investigación de la escuela de ciencias de la computación (Informática) de la Universidad de Waterloo.

Cuando usted navega por las páginas electrónicas, usted deja un rastro electrónico de interés para  empresas, los responsables de mercadeo y para los gobiernos.

En esta presentación Ronaldo hablara de por qué la seguridad en  Internet debería preocuparle. Incluso si usted piensa que no tiene nada que poner en riesgo. Ronaldo expondrá los medios -tanto técnicos como psicológicos- que se utilizan para encontrar los datos que usted deja cuando navega por Internet, y dará ejemplos del tipo de información que su navegador permite a otros de adquirir. Por último, Ronaldo describirá lo que usted puede hacer para proteger su privacidad y evitar que su información privada sea usada contra su voluntad, o contra usted.

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Can your web browser keep a secret?

Ronaldo García, is member of the Research Support group for the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

By browsing web sites, you leave an electronic trail that businesses, marketers, and governments find very interesting.

In this presentation, Ronaldo will talk about why this should concern you, even if you think you have nothing to hide. He'll discuss the means - both technical and psychological - that other parties use to find out what you're up to when web browsing. He'll show some of the information that your browsing allows others to acquire. Finally, Ronaldo will describe what you can do to protect your privacy and prevent your private information from being used against your will, or against you.

La presentación sera en español.

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Rabinal Project

RABINAL PROJECT

The hope comes, the seed comes

The Guatemala Group is requesting your support to the indigenous youth of Rio Negro to access to elementary and high school education.

Your donation is highly appreciate

The Waterloo Region Guatemala Group and the Waterloo Region Mayan Project have joined efforts to support the “Nueva Esperanza Foundation in the Maya Achi community of Rio Negro, Rabinal, province of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, to provide quality education to children and youth members of Rio Negro and neighbouring communities.

History

Between 1976 and 1985 the Guatemalan Government built the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Northern Guatemala. The dam structure and its reservoir flooded the land of several indigenous communities with a population of approximately 3500. It forced to relocate those affected communities; Rio Negro was among those displaced communities
The International Monetary Fund -IMF- and the Guatemalan National Hydro Institute -INDE- relocated those affected communities, from their fertile lands to less arable ones. Besides that in the context of the Guatemalan 36 year's civil war, when the community of Rio Negro did not agree with the land provided to them, the Guatemalan army massacred the Rio Negro community on March 13th, 1982.

The survivors of that massacre with the leadership of Jesus Tecú Osorio, decided to look for justice and bring the material and intellectual responsible of the massacres before the justice system in Guatemala. For the survivors it is important that those atrocities never happen again. To achieve that goal the community agreed that education is the path to build a strong community. Their education program is founded on the principles of Justice, Peace and Democracy.

In 1997 the Nueva Esperanza Foundation started an apprenticeship program for the Maya Achi youth. In the following years the project expanded to grant scholarships for grades 7, 8 and high school students.

In 2003 they founded the New Hope Community Bilingual Institute to provide an integral education to the community members from elementary to high school. The principles and foundations of their education programs lie on the culture, the tradition, the Mayan world view, and current life style of the Maya Achi communities as well as in the principles of peace and justice, with the goal to build strong communities that create better standards of living for those impoverished Mayan-Achi communities. The school vision is to create a space that value and strengthen the Achi culture, applying a methodology that links the ethnic and community reality and vindicates the Rio Negro's history.


Currently the school serves a population of 113 students, 25 of them have scholarships. Considering the distances that some students have to travel to get to the school and the financial situation of the families a boarding school was created.


With the support of members of the community and the international solidarity the school facilities have been under construction, a lot is needed to have a complete infrastructure that allows the students to get education with the right conditions.

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