Technology
Connect Americas Summit 2012
Panama City, Panama, 17-19 July 2012. Connecting the unconnected by 2015.
The Connect Americas Summit aims to attract commitments and investments in human, financial and technical resources required to connect everyone in the region to information and communication technologies (ICT). The Summit offers a venue for leaders from the public and private sectors as well as international and regional financing and development agencies to network face-to-face and forge new partnerships for the accelerated roll out of broadband connectivity.
Leveraging a powerful combination of tech + partnerships, we are indeed rewriting the human story & moving the world #Conectar12- Trinidad and Tobago Government News - Caricom wants region to have secure broadband networksJuly 21, 2012 The Connect to the Americas Summit opened in Panama City on Wednesday with a chorus of calls for the speedy roll-out of sec...
#Conectar12 @ITU_BDTdirector: #Conectar12 Summit brought together over 650 participants from 36 countries (29 from the region).- grenada calls for more suport for the region's ICT initiatives(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Grenada's Finance and Planning Minister the Hon Nazim Burke has called for "r...
Buscan reducir la "brecha digital" en Latinoamérica con 53.400 millones de dólares :: EFE USA - Spanish-Language News :: SociedadImagen de varios de los participantes en el panel sobre inclusión digital regional "Dando voz a los sin voz" como parte de la cumbre "Con...
Newsroom * Press ReleaseICTs declared "engines of economic prosperity and sustainable development" Panama City, 19 July 2012 - The ITU Connect Americas Summit wr...- From Geneva University Hospitals to the Real Madrid Foundation, below follows the live coverage from the Partnership Pledges' session. For the full text on the announcements, see the Summit website: http://bit.ly/Ojhr7g
- ITU & Geneva @hopitaux_unige announce deployment of pan-American telemedicine network at #Conectar12
#Nicaragua anuncia inversión de 5 millones de dls. para revertir la brecha digital en zonas rurales. #Conectar12- El BID lanzará próximamente análisis sobre el impacto , desarrollo y niveles de banda ancha en región de AL y El Caribe. #Conectar12
- #Conectar12 O3b @satellites_: will be placing 4 telemetry control stations in Peru. Network node to be placed in Brazil
- #Conectar12 Telcor @WorldBank: extending project to provide infrastructure & content to Caribbean coast/Nicaragua inc. school connectivity
- #Conectar12 Davies @Intel announces 3rd billion program in Americas + progress of USF to build out #broadband and transform education
RT @ITU_News: #Conectar12 @MiguelRaimilla: invitation extended to all to participate in ITU @telecentreorg initiative to support youth employment thru ICT- ITU & @telecentreorg announce partnership to support youth employment & youth entrepreneurship through ICT #Conectar12
- #ConnectAmericas @telecentreorg @ITU lanzan Telecentro Futuro-Centros de Innovacion para jóvenes de IberoAmerica con apoyo de @Gob.Cataluña
- En calidad de Testigo de Honor, la primera dama de la República y presidenta de la Fundación Amigos del Real Madrid Panamá, participó en el compromiso de alianza entre la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (UIT), y la Fundación Real Madrid, que permitirá una asociación común para facilitar la inclusión social de los jóvenes. Durante esta alianza, a propósito de la Cumbre Conectar las Américas 2012, de la que Panamá es anfitriona, se anunció el proyecto a desarrollar a través de la provisión de programas educativos en Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) y del deporte (fútbol y baloncesto) administrados en las academias de deporte de la Fundación Real Madrid.
- ITU & @Fun_Realmadrid to provide ICT & sport facilities + training for students aged 6-17, in particular most disadvantaged #Conectar12
- ITU & @Fun_Realmadrid announce partnership to support social inclusion/integration for youth through ICT + sport at school #Conectar12
