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Informática 2018, towards the development of the country

The 17th International Convention and Fair opened its doors this Monday at the International Conferences Center in Havana. It counts on the participation of specialists from Cuban enterprises and businesses from up to 8 countries.

The director  of the Informatics and Communications enterprise group (GEIC), Grisel Reyes Leon, informed in a press conference that this biannual meeting is aimed to promote the knowledge exchange and also to foster good practices in the field of informatization at a national and international level.

"This is the largest event that brings together the largest number of professionals linked to the sector. The ICTs are cross-cutting technologies and with these characteristics are present as soon as an international or national event takes place in the country. "

Reyes León also commented that this event generates a meeting where professionals who are in different functions, whether in the business or institutional sector, in the academy or the government, exchange experiences or knowledge, present new technologies, show how these technologies apply in practical examples, they also exchange on good practices and talk about the ethics that should be present in the development of technologies and the legal framework that supports the same innovations.

 

"This year we particularly intend to strengthen the image of Cuba internationally with the samples or with everything that is evident in both the Convention and the IT Fair, based on the ability of our professionals to native to be able to develop and develop the process of computerization of Cuban society without the need for an outsider to assume the role that belongs to us Cubans. "

The Organizing Committee President of the Exhibition Fair also commented that they hope this event can contribute to generating greater technological independence out of knowledge, and the adaptation of these innovations to the national context.

The Convention also plans to open the Exphibition  Fair on Tuesday, March 20 at PABEXPO fairgrounds.

 

The Fair is structured in three important elements: one is the expository section; the Business Forum with the intention of exchanging and acquiring new technologies and solutions to business and institutional problems, as well as the II University-Enterprise Workshop that allows the establishment of the exchange of experiences.

"In the exhibition part there will be samples of the products, services, applications and solutions of 42 Cuban companies and 12 foreign companies from eight participating countries. Furthermore, in the expository part, we will also have the opportunity, as in previous years, of highlighting or signifying 24 projects or solutions developed by national entities that, because of their economic or social impact, the integration and the results achieved, have been selected from the competition "Panorama of ICT in Cuba" that took place prior to the event. "