Marking the organization’s 10th anniversary, the two-day event at the Puerto Rico Convention Center will feature an IT Academy and cover topics from AI to cybersecurity. #NewsismyBusiness
For the fourth consecutive year, the CIO & IT Leadership Conference will be held on March 10 at the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino, organizers announced Monday.
Puerto Rico needs to consider integrating broadband use as one of its key economic indicators — beyond cement production and energy consumption — to promote business expansion and the development of new initiatives to create jobs, generate tax revenue and even increase real estate values, public and private sector industry representatives said Tuesday.
The Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico IT Cluster, a group dedicated to turning the information technology industry into a pillar of economic development of the island, announced Monday it will host the CIO & IT Leadership Conference for the second consecutive year.
Puerto Rico’s Chief Information Officer, Giancarlo González, was included in this year’s “State of the CIO” survey, which lists the top 100 information technology executives in the nation based on their presence on Twitter.
A group of high-ranking officials participated Wednesday in the annual Code for America summit in San Francisco, where they unveiled an application known as “PrimerPaso” developed for Puerto Rico, to address government-specific problems.
In the past year, Puerto Rico’s “hacker community” has created 31 solutions to address 12 government challenges aiming to increase effectiveness between agencies and the quality of services to citizens. Expectations are running high for the development of more applications during the second edition of the Tech Summit.
A group of Code for America (CfA) programmers will be helping the Puerto Rican government develop tools to address the island’s civic needs, CIO Giancarlo González and Science, Technology and Research Trust Executive Director Iván Ríos-Mena announced Thursday.
After competing against 50 cities, Puerto Rico was recently selected to host the Code for America program, a non-partisan, non-political nonprofit that brings web-industry professionals together with city governments to promote openness, participation, and efficiency in municipal governments.
The Puerto Rico Science, Research and Technology Trust and the government’s Chief Information Officer will work together to identify and evaluate research and development projects of high economic impact, which in turn may generate new marketable technologies, the entities announced Sunday.
Less than two weeks away from the first “Puerto Rico Tech Summit,” the Government Information Office met Tuesday with programmers participating in the Hackers Boot Camp to discuss the possible areas, or challenges, for which they will be developing solutions and applications.
The Puerto Rico government has submitted a proposal to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s First Responder Network Authority seeking $1.4 million to develop a public safety broadband network for the island, La Fortaleza’s Chief Information Officer Giancarlo González confirmed Monday.
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