WASHINGTON — Panama, host of the VII Summit of the Americas next April, will see its economy grow faster in 2015 than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.
The Foundation for Puerto Rico and Columbus Business Solutions announced Thursday an agreement whereby the latter will outfit the nonprofit’s “Colaboratorio” space in Santurce, enabling grassroots organizations sharing the space to have access to high-speed broadband technology.
Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, is one of this year’s 35 winners of this year’s “100 Resilient Cities Challenge,” joining a network created by The Rockefeller Foundation last year, organizers announced Wednesday during a summit in Singapore.