I. Introduction and Constituencies
Research communities in urban computing, virtual reality and visualization disciplines have been existent for a long time in both China and Latin America. There are three major ones of them which share parts in the collaboration: Technical Committee on Virtual Reality and Visualization of China Computer Federation (CCF-TCVRV) in China, Mobile Computing Research Consortium (I2COMM) in Colombia, and two national universities of Ecuador: Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN, the Polytechnic School) and Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE, the University of Armed Forces).