Puerto Rico’s current financial crisis might just be the opportunity for the government to stay on track with its strategy of collaborating with private-sector technology companies to find solutions to its problems and improve services to citizens.
The Puerto Rico Government Development Bank on Wednesday released a revised Economic Activity Index for March that registered a -0.4 percent year-over-year reduction, and a month-over-month increase of 0.5 percent.
The Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board has set the ball rolling on an initiative to gather data from the island’s broadband providers to define the sector’s contributions to the economy, with results expected to be ready in a year, agency President Javier Rúa-Jovet said Wednesday.