FUDCon:LATAM 2011 Bid Panama/es

FUDcon LATAM 2011 - Panamá

Descripción de la Ciudad

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La ciudad de Panamá es la capital y mayor ciudad de la República de Panamá. Está localizada a orillas del golfo de Panamá, en el océano Pacífico, La ciudad es el principal centro cultural y económico del país, posee una intensa actividad financiera y un centro bancario internacional y El Canal de Panamá.

En la ciudad de Panamá está ubicado uno de los Centros Financieros Internacionales más grandes de Latinoamérica

Su amplia oferta cultural y gastronómica hizo que fuera elegida como Capital Americana de la Cultura

Ciudad del Saber

La Ciudad del Saber está basada en la innovación, la cultura emprendedora y la sostenibilidad, lo que la convierte en un centro de intercambio de conocimiento para las Américas.

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Aeropuertos locales y distancia del hospedaje y sede

M{as información sobre el aeropuerto de Tocumen Aquí

distancia de Ciudad del Saber al aeropuerto

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen (código IATA: PTY, código OACI: MPTO) está localizado a 24 kilómetros de la Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá. El aeropuerto es el mayor y más importante de Panamá y tiene vuelos a 54 ciudades (a 2008) de América y Europa cubriendo práctica toda Latinoamérica. En el 2006 se llevó a cabo un importante programa de expansión y renovación con el objetivo de modernizar y mejorar sus servicios.

Es también el hub principal de operaciones de Copa Airlines, por lo que nuestros embajadores pueden obtener precios especiales viajando con esta compañía

Outline of local mass transit.

More Information Here

Panama has an extensive and efficient, form of public transportation consisting of colorful painted buses colloquially known as diablo rojo. There is also a bus terminal near the airport which together with the airport serves as the main transport hub for the rest of the country.

Panamá will have a citywide metro system initially 14 km long, stretching across the city for next year. This new metro system along with the Metrobus propel the city and country toward Panama's goal of entering the first world.

Detailed description of proposed venue and estimated costs including room capacity and configuration.

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The City of Knowledge has a number of villas prepared for accommodation of students, professors and experts participating in temporary academic programs or in authorized projects that may include lodging.

They have the essential furniture and are located in the City of Knowledge area, which makes it easy to use all resources and services and to get around on foot within the premises.

Prices go from 35us$ to 20us$, there are near hostals where people can sleep safe and for a cheap price.

Description of proposed lodging and estimated costs along with a written agreement from lodging specifying rates

Type B Accommodation Villas At these villas you can arrange for nightly stays and you can rent individual or shared rooms. They are ideal for students or temporary visitors to programs developed at CDS. These villas are equipped with the essentials.

Characteristics: Type B villas have three bedrooms with two beds each, all of them with ceiling fans. The living room has a telephone, television, and ceiling fan. The kitchen includes a microwave oven, fridge, cutlery, tableware and a coffee maker.

Prices go from 20us$ to 35us$. (this can be also part of Ciudad del Saber sponsorship)

Estimated costs of flights major airports that attendees will travel from.

This cost can variate / Special prices can be found with Copa

Countries inside CentralAmerica

Some countries can travel by bus

• Costa Rica = us$70 (bus)
• Nicaragua = us$90
• El Salvador = us$120
• Guatemala = us$150

Info about Ticabus transportation Here

Countries Outside CentralAmerica

• Miami = us$400
• Venezuela = us$400
• Colombia = us$450
• Ecuador = us$470
• Santiago de chile = us$850
• Rio de Janeiro = us$950
• Buenos Aires = us$1.000
• Madrid = us$1.300

Info about Copa Airlines Here

Brief description of on the ground resources and their experience with FUDcon/other large events.

More info about the Convention Center Here

This is one of the most active sections in the City of Knowledge. With an auditorium that can seat 500 people and the most complete technological platform in the region for interactive development of new forms of learning in its Digital Classroom, the City of Knowledge Convention Center has plenty of possibilities for holding your event, meeting, seminar, graduation ceremony, congress, fair or videoconference, among other things.

Even if Panamá hasn't held a FUDcon event ever, they have held events like last minidebconf, Flisol and SFD. Also, like all CentralAmerica countries are really near, we can count with almost all LATAM (CentralAmerica and top of SouthAmerica) people resources, gather for help for a really small us$ amount. Will be an excellent oportunity to gather a good number of contributors.

Auditorium

The auditorium may be used as a single space or as three, because it can be divided into modules. It covers a total of 465 m2 (5,005 square feet) and can seat approximately 500 people. Rental of this auditorium includes central air conditioning, telephone access, Internet, basic furniture, and cleaning service.

Videoconference Room

This room is equipped with a Tandberg 6000 educator. VC speed is 128 to 384 kbps, with ISDN.IP communication. This room seats 90 people.

Meeting Room and Offices

As part of the comprehensive services and supplementary spaces at the Convention Center, we have a small meeting room for 10 people and three individual offices for support during events.

Dining Room

We can provide you with tables and chairs for your congress or seminar, as well as a fully equipped kitchen so that a catering team may work without any problems.

Notation of internet connectivity options for both hotel and conference venue.

Ciudad del Saber has excellent telecommunications, IT and educational technology services, including an intelligent high-tech center with the required capacity for teleconferences, distance learning, fast internet connections, and other services.

Outline of proximate restaurant locations.

Ciudad del saber is at 10 min from Ciudad de Panamá's downtown. So all kind of foods can be found.

Dining Room

We can provide you with tables and chairs for your congress or seminar, as well as a fully equipped kitchen so that a catering team may work without any problems.

Deadlines for event reservation, etc.

First meeting with Ciudad del Saber will be held Monday August, 09; info will be updated next week

Pros and Cons of the proposed location.

Pros

• As Panamá is in the middle of LATAM and is a financial center, travels, hotels and services are really cheap to be a more atractive destination.

• All CentralAmerica countries have easy access to Panamá; so most of them can travel by bus, will help to decrese the traveling budget and help to bring more people to FUDcon.

• Ciudad del Saber has a huge list of aliances that can represent a benefit to our community. This list includes all Panamá universities, several governamental agency, Alliance Française, Smithsonian Research Institute, Science and Technology for Development Iberoamerican Program, Latin American Social Sciences Institute, National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions of Mexico and others. See complete list here

• We can count with cidetys - International Center for Technological Development an Free Software support (English link here)

Cons

As Panamá is in the middle of LATAM, maybe bring people from the bottom side of SouthAmerica will be too expensive.