Become a Member

Benefits of becoming a member

  • Participation in the largest Latin American forum on Informatics.
  • Network of specialists in Informatics. Conferences, professors, researchers, lecturers, speakers.
  • Participation in the Latin American Informatics Conferences.
  • Special prices in events sponsored by CLEI.
  • Sponsorship of Congresses and other regional events.
  • Scholarships for participation in the Latin American Informatics Conference.
  • Membership in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

How to become an associate?

CLEI brings together people from the Latin American academic community, such as academics, researchers, professionals and students. CLEI members are institutional. Membership is open to:

  • Teaching and research institutions
  • Scientific societies
  • Professional associations.

To incorporate an institution to CLEI it is necessary to send to the Executive Secretary a letter from a responsible authority of the institution requesting the incorporation, general information about the institution (objectives, characteristics, activities, etc. that can come in a catalog or similar publication), and a specification of the person who will be the liaison with CLEI (and his/her mailing address).

For more information, contact the Executive Secretary (secretaria@clei.org).

As of March 1, 2013 the quota is US $ 350. The registration cost is US $ 350.

The only forms of payment of CLEI quotas are:

  • Cash or check payable to “CENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE ESTUDIOS EN INFORMÁTICA”.
  • During the annual conferences
  • Bank transfer in dollars payable to “CENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE ESTUDIOS EN INFORMÁTICA”.

Current Account 50360010905 Banco de Chile

Oficina Pedro de Valdivia. Pedro de Valdivia #1833

Providencia, Santiago de Chile, ChilE

Swift Code: BCHICLRM

CLEI has been a legal entity in Chile since September 2004, RUT No. 65.441.860-8 and its legal address is Avenida Brasil 2241, Valparaíso, Chile.

Address for correspondence: Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile.

Requests

Scholarship

Since 1998 CLEI has awarded scholarships to authors participating in the annual conference. The Executive Committee has been commissioned to decide the recipients of the scholarships.

The CLEI Executive Committee decides and awards the scholarships. There is a resource limit for this concept. The scholarships can be full or partial, e.g., only airfare, only half, etc.

The Executive Committee analyzes the applications with the following criteria (not necessarily ordered in terms of priority):

  • Reasons argued for their request.
  • Partial funding that the authors can assume.
  • Reasons argued by the country representatives (when this occurs).
  • Qualification of items.
  • Travel bag available (probably close to $5000).
  • To obtain the greatest possible benefit.
  • Clei membership of the institution of which he/she is a member.
  • Participation in other CLEI conferences.
  • Papers presented by the same author.
  • The institution must be up to date with membership payments.

Support for events

Since 2002 CLEI wants to collaborate in the financing of events when they deserve and require it. The Executive Committee has been commissioned to decide the benefits. There is a limit of resources for this concept. The Executive Committee analyzes the requests with the following criteria (not necessarily ordered in terms of priority):

  • Reasons argued for their request.
  • Partial funding that the authors can assume.
  • Reasons argued by the country representatives (when this occurs).
  • Qualification of items.
  • Travel bag available (probably close to $5000).
  • To obtain the greatest possible benefit.
  • Clei membership of the institution of which he/she is a member.
  • Participation in other CLEI conferences.
  • Papers presented by the same author.
  • The institution must be up to date with membership payments.