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The article reports on the VI Spanish National Plan for Scientific R+D+I for the 2008-2011 period. The plan raises the budget to 48 billion pesos, which is double the investment for the 2003-2007 period. The structure of the new plan is based on the definition of the six instrumental lines of projects, human resources, infrastructures, institutional strengthening, internationalization of the system, and articulation. Spain hopes to promote continuous training within the area of mobility and knowledge or engineers and researchers.

This is the fourth article in the series of eight, opened in September and published monthly in the Global Communications Newsletter, which covers all areas of IEEE ComSoc Member Relations. In this series of articles, I introduce the seven Member Relations Directors (namely: Sister and Related Societies; Membership Programs Development; AP, NA, LA, EAME Regions; Marketing and Industry Relations) and the Chair of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Standing Committee. In each article, one by one they present their activities and plans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Fourth Conference on Telematics Engineering (JITEL) took place in Gran Canaria, Spain from September 15-17, 2003. Previous celebrations of this conference took place in Bilbao in 1997, Leganés, Madrid, in 1999 and Barcelona in 2001. JITEL is the flagship meeting of Spanish researchers and industry experts on the following topics: network design and interconnection, distributed platforms and network management, agents and active networks, access networks, traffic models and control, mobile and wireless communications etc.

The Ministry of Industry announced in February 2010 [1] a plan to collect between ϵ1500 and ϵ2000 million with the auction of new frequency bands for mobile telephony. The bid for a total of 310 MHz in different frequency bands will be done by a mixed formula: 90 percent through auctions and 10 percent by competition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the highlights of the III International Conference on Digital Citizenship which was held in San Sebastian, Spain on May 8 and 9, 2012. Among the speakers were Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the domain name system (DNS), and Matt Barrie, chief executive of Freelancer.com. The conference featured events to help participants to go further into certain aspects of the new network-society in which people live.

The article offers information on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects of the National Strategic Consortia for Technical Research (CENIT) in Spain, which Telefonica de Espana SA participates. It relates that the projects include the automotive networking, ambient intelligence for electronic-health, and augmented telepresence and discusses the objectives of the individual projects. It also adds that the projects are designed for the development of technological innovations that can be used for the development of new products, services or processes. Moreover, it cites that the Spanish CENIT program aims to nurture the collaboration among private, public and research sectors and mobilizing very huge budgets on single projects.

The article presents a calendar of events related to information technology. The "8th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications, and Services" is scheduled on August 17-19, 2006 in New Delhi, India. The "2nd International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications" is scheduled on September 14-15, 2006 in Spain. The "International Conference on Information Technology" is scheduled on October 16-19, 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Information about several topics discussed at the ICT Mobile Summit held on June 9-12, 2009 in Santander, Spain is presented. Topics include Internet issues, fixed communications, and mobile application and software space. Moreover, the meeting featured 450 experts representing a broad spectrum of the research community, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

The International Campus of Excellence (ICE) program, promoted by the Ministry of Education of the Spanish Government, is working to improve the quality and excellence of the Spanish universities and their environments. Similar programs have been carried out in France (with the Op?ration Campus program) and Germany (with the Exzellenzinitiative program). All of them are based on additional funding for the best universities, with the intention of achieving excellence and more international presence. Another common characteristic of the three previous programs is that they consider reinforcing research activities, by supporting Ph.D. schools and research institutions, the key to achieving the proposed objectives. On the other hand, other multinational organizations, like the European Commission, have also promoted similar initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]