This document summarizes FIWARE activities in Latin America. It details initial contacts and activities with Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru. It outlines progress establishing a FIWARE node and engagement with public authorities in Mexico. It also notes initial contacts have been made with other Latin American countries like Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Colombia. The document encourages readers to consider how FIWARE could benefit them, ask questions at the demo session, and follow FIWARE on social media.

1. peter.fatelnig@ec.europa.eu
European Commission, DG CONNECT Net Innovation

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15. FIWARE Mundus
First contacts with
Uruguay and Peru
Initial activities with Chile
and Brazil
• Progress with authorities and an
R&D center devoted to Future
Internet and FIWARE in Chile
• Contacts with authorities in Brazil
First international activities
kicked off in Mexico
• Public authorities engaged and
involved
• Setup of a FIWARE node in Mexico
is a reality (1200+ cores by Q1 2015)
• Action plan in place: promotion of
FIWARE within funding programmes
targeted to startups/entrepreneurs in
Mexico, identification of Mexican
cities which will publish their open
data and APIs on the FIWARE Lab
Other LatAm countries
• Initial contacts have been made with Costa
Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Colombia
• Interest from Argentina

17. 1. Think about what FIWARE could mean for
you, your research, your innovation
activities, your business.
2. Put concrete questions together.
3. Come and see us at the demo session later
today. The rather big FIWARE leadership
team would love to answer any difficult
question you might find.
4. Follow FIWARE on twitter at @FIWARE

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@fiware
youtube.com/fiware