The Santo Domingo Cyber Park (PCSD) was re-launched yesterday during a public function led by President Leonel Fernandez. The new phase includes US$250 million worth of investment projects by foreign technological companies and academic services from the Stevens Institute of Technology from the US. Also included are residential areas, shopping centers and recreational facilities. Diario Libre reports that the companies installed or in the process of installation include the fields of telecommunications, information technology, robotics and microelectronics. These include Caribbean Custom Mold, Brighstar, Interdom, Image Processing Center, Quick Cash Inc., UVColor, Europeene Ingenierie, Super Clik and Tansource PBOSolutions, according to PCSD president Eddy Martinez. The ceremony was also attended by Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, the president of the Board of the Las Americas Technological Institute, Msgr. Agripino Nunez Collado, the president of Stevens Institute of Technology, Harold Raveche, and Higher Education Minister Ligia Amado Melo.
Listin Diario reports on President Fernandez’s appreciation that the PCSD will generate wealth, leading to greater social equality in the medium and long term fight against poverty. He said that some people may question the park as not being a priority and that what the country needs are aqueducts, vaccination programs and the eradication of poverty. However, the President says that people who think like that are mistaken, because poverty cannot be eradicated and a modernization program cannot be established in the country if we do not generate the wealth required to undertake each of the priorities which are important for the country’s progress.