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Authors: Oswaldo Moscoso Zea, Dominik Lekse, Andrew Smith, Lars Holstein

The recent development of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has enabled the emergence of payment services using mobile phones. Furthermore, this technological innovation initiated an ongoing evolution concerning payment transactions. Companies and researchers project that the prevalent function of credit cards will be progressively substituted by mobile devices. In this paper NFC is described in detail and a graphed based network analysis is performed to determine players and industries involved in the network as well as the relations, including conflicts, cooperation, or alliances between these actors.

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Authors: Anita Argüello, Daniel Arboleda, Jonathan Menoscal, Dennis Maldonado, Santiago Urresta

The Metropolitan District of Quito covers 61.563 has., containing many species of flora andfauna. Accelerated urbanization processes have led to illegal housing and human invasions,putting pressure on existing forests, especially on the slopes of Pichincha and the ravines of thenorthern part of the District. The Metropolitan District of Quito, in its Natural Heritage Policy,prioritizes the integration, connectivity, maintenance, recovery and rehabilitation of naturalareas, to support the District environmental security. Focus is put on reducing the anthropiceffects on the affected ecosystems and natural areas. To reinforce this policy, the Municipalitysigned a contract for the reforestation of eleven ravines in La Delicia. The reforestation wasdone from April to June 2012, on a total of 43 has., with the commitment of planting 37.152plants. To track this process the Municipality planned an initial monitoring to determine thestatus of the reforestation and its impact on the selected ravines. Planted and surviving plantswere counted on each of the eleven ravines, and a compliance of only 5.05% of the plannedreforestation was verified.