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Caguas Mayor William E. Miranda-Torres announced the start of construction of the Business Disaster Response and Recovery Center, a $3.8 million project that will be developed in the town’s urban center. The project includes the expansion of the Inova business incubator, said Miranda-Torres, who chairs the organization’s board. “Today we’re breaking ground on what soon, […]
The INOVA Incubation Program in Caguas recently marked its fifth anniversary with the “graduation” of the first companies born there, which so far have created 200 direct and 400 indirect jobs. The program also celebrated the national recognition given to one of its resident companies by the National Business Incubation Association, a first for Puerto Rico.
Citi Foundation and the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, or Inteco, announced Tuesday the return of “Techbiz.mobi,” a techno-educational program designed to teach 18 to 25-year-olds to create mobile apps for the Android mobile operating system and learn to market them online.
The Central Eastern Technological Initiative, or Inteco, launched its ambitious $16.3 million broadband network project that will benefit a 10-town region through advanced Internet access Tuesday, a little more than a year after announcing its plans.
High speed Internet service available to residents of Puerto Rico’s central-eastern region is about to get a boost through the successful interconnection of the networks run by Critical Hub Networks, through its Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative, and the Central-Eastern Technological Initiative, known as Inteco.
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi told members of Congress Tuesday Puerto Rico needs to “have the correct policies in place, on both the federal and local level, to enable households and businesses … to access and adopt high-speed Internet and other modern telecommunications services at affordable rates.”
The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company’s board approved a $1.6 million assignment to the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, to match federal funding granted by the U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration to expand broadband access to economically disadvantage communities in the region, Economic Development and Commerce José Pérez-Riera, who also heads Pridco, said Monday.
Caguas municipal government officials and representatives from the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, or Inteco, unveiled an ambitious $16.3 million broadband network project that will benefit a 10-town region through advanced Internet access.
The areas of health care, education, and public safety in eight central and eastern Puerto Rico towns will have access to faster and more affordable broadband services in coming months through the network interconnection agreement reached between Critical Hub Networks’ Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative project and the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, or Inteco.
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