About CLEI

CLEI is a non-profit organization, whose members are the most important and prestigious Latin-American universities, professional associations and research centers interested in the areas of research, teaching and the development of informatics.

Objectives

• Creating stages of scientific and educative cooperation in informatics for Latin-America.
• Strengthening technological and cultural interchange in informatics
• Promoting the creation of native technologies that properly deal with regional necessities
• Enhancing the quality of education in informatics
• Promoting the scientific development of informatics in Latin-America.

Main Activity

CLEI annually organizes the most important Latin American Informatics Conference hich traditionally moves among its member countries.

• In recent years, an average of nearly 1000 attendees participated.
• Several hundred papers are typically submitted.
• A Program Committee, with investigators from over a dozen countries, selects approximately 100 of them for presentation at the conference and for publication in its proceedings.
• Traditionally, the best papers are published in a special issue of the CLEI Electronic Journal

Benefits of joining CLEI

• CLEI it is the largest informatics Latin-American forum.
• It is a network of informatics specialists, lecturers, teachers, investigators, and speakers.
• Participation in the Latin American Informatics Conferences
• Reduced inscription fees in CLEI sponsored events
• Sponsoring of Congresses and other regional events
• Latin-American Master's Thesis Contest
• Scholarships for the participation in the Latin American Informatics Conference
• CLEI is a member of IFIP.

Additional information

CLEI is incorporated as a legal entity in Chile since September 2004; its RUT is 65.441.860-8

Mailing address: Informatics department, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María, PO Box 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile.

The official CLEI web site is