Senacyt | Philippe Aniorte (center) is the first director of Indicatic AIP. | Redacción Metro Libre
The National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research in Information and Communication Technologies (INDICATIC AIP), the new Public Interest Association (AIP) has the goal of becoming a technological development center with specialists, to position Panama as a generator of knowledge, products and processes based on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies).
The Indicatic AIP was presented by the National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation, Eduardo Ortega-Barría, during the recent Summit Innovation Ecosystems Panama 2022, organized by the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (Senacyt).
“The purpose of the Indicatic AIP is to help us move from being simple consumers of information and communication technology to being generators of knowledge, products and processes related to ICTs,” summarized the Senacyt secretary.
The director of Indicatic AIP is Philippe Aniorte, PhD in computer science, teacher and researcher with 35 years of professional experience, trained at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.
“ICT is an acronym that has been used for a long time, but it seems to me that today it is a bit closed, since we are talking about broader and more ambitious areas and trends; so I prefer to talk about digital systems related to what we now know as digital transition, something that happens in all countries and affects all domains of society,” he explains.
This extension of digital systems, continues Aniorte, was born in factories more than 10 years ago, a trend baptized as “Industry 4.0” and that remained in the industrial perimeter.
In the case of the research line that Indicatic AIP will follow, it will be done in an interdisciplinary way around smart systems, covering two relevant challenges: design and development of cyber-physical systems based on connected environments (IoT) and data management (big data), which has to do with data science, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
“These are, in general terms, the lines that the institute will follow and our field of application, with a wide range of disciplines and sub-disciplines that can be added to the project at a later date,” says Aniorte.
It was announced that scholarships for master's and doctoral degrees will be arranged in close coordination with Senacyt and the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP), where the institute's headquarters are located.
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