At a cost of RD$20 billion, the Medina administration announced the official start of the República Digital education program yesterday in an event at the Politécnico Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó in Buena Vista, in Santo Domingo North. Medina said that in the future, the government will hand over a million computers to students across the country. Public school teachers are also being given a computer.
President Medina highlighted the installation of 540 kilometers of fiber optic cable in coordination with the governmental power lines transmission corporation (ETE) to provide broad bandwidth Internet service to those who do not yet have access to this service.
Speaking to teachers and students at the high school where he handed over the first 940 computers of the pilot program, he said we are now in the digital era. The era of paper and pens has passed, he told the smiling students and professors.
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Diario Libre
7 December 2017
