The Santo Domingo Cyber Park and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) have signed an agreement whereby drones will be used to supervise public works construction. Miguel Coronado for the IDB and Eddy Martinez for the Parque Cibernético de Santo Domingo signed the agreement on 19 February 2019. The agreement seeks to develop technical capacities in small and medium-sized enterprises, and encourage entrepreneurs to take advantage of robotics and communication technologies in infrastructure projects. The drone program will train staff in data capture, data processing and the use of specialized software to process the data captured by the little aircraft.
Eddy Martínez, of the Santo Domingo Cyber Park, said the IDB project would be run simultaneously in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Bolivia, lasting for 36 months at a cost of US$1,709,250, with a US$1,180,900 technical assistance grant provided by the IDB Lab. The remaining US$528,350 will be raised by a public-private partnership.
Martínez says the program seeks to promote the use of technology to increase business productivity, stimulate innovation within companies and at the same time, generate technological capabilities that allow access to new jobs with a greater added value.
On his behalf, Miguel Coronado, representative of the IDB Group revealed that the project is the first to be developed in Latin America. It seeks to change substantially the way in which the supervision of works in the region is carried out, with four primary objectives: the reduction of costs related to supervision, optimizing the analysis and calculation of civil works, minimizing errors during execution and improving the workforce with a higher level of technical ability.
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21 February 2019