Second place award - Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest!

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We are excited to announce that our thesis (A grounded theory of organizational structures for development and infrastructure professionals in software-producing organizations) won the second place award in the IX Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest (CLTD 2023) within the XLIX Latin American Conference on Informatics (CLEI 2023)!

Figure 1 - During the contest

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Figure 2 - Receiving the award

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Figure 3 - The three finalists - me, Gabriela Cajamarca (Ecuador) and Rodrigo Silva (Unicamp / UFABC)

The conference

The CLEI conferences have been run since 1974 by the Latin American Center for Informatics Studies (CLEI), and are the main Latin American space for the exchange of ideas, experiences, results, and applications among researchers, teachers, and students of Informatics and Computer Science.

CLEI 2023 was held in la Paz, Bolivia, at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Computación análisis y semántica, adelante informática!!!).

Some interviews about CLEI 2023 can be checked at the TikTok of the Carrera de Informática of UMSA.

Figure 4 - Friends of Tarija and UMSA

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Figure 5 - XV Latin American Women in Computing Congress

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Figure 6 - Excellent talk about economic complexity

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Figure 7 - Finishing

Cultural

Figure 8 - Church party with Huayna Wila

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Figure 9 - Church party with Jach'a Malku

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Figure 10 - CLEI opening

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Figure 11 - CLEI dinner and other scenes

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Figure 12 - CLEI party with Huayna Wila (yes, again, but now even better!)

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Figure 13 - CLEI closure

Tourism in La Paz

Figure 14 - Going to El Alto by cable car (La Paz has the largest cable car network of the world)

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Figure 15 - Killi Killi lookout with Danner (from Santa Cruz de la Sierra) and Gabriel (USP).

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Figure 16 - The excellent National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz

Souvenirs

Figure 17 - Souvenirs