jueves, 25 de abril de 2013

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informality.(Informalidad)



The informality is a common event not only in our city but throughout the country, which not all people can get a formal job and this leads to people taking the drug trade as an option for income and support their families.

Strategies like this to support the development of the city in terms of technology, create new jobs and show the city that is an industry growing 12% each year as the president says it is a positive thing for our city that motivates us to do part of this growth go hand in hand with TIC. this promotes equality and that can give us a better quality of life.

published by Anderson Salazar TAPSI UAM

Vivelab Manizales

Manizales, the Silicon Valley national

source La Patria Manizales


The goal is that Manizales be the 

Silicon Valley national


Photos | Freddy Arango | LA PATRIA President Juan Manuel Santos highlighted yesterday during the inauguration of VivelabManizales, talent in digital content development in the city.




Adriana Osorio
LA PATRIA | MANIZALES
The talent that highlights the national government in Manizales for the development of digital content and has a specialized center, equipped with computers and space for students, entrepreneurs and researchers to draw out their plans. This is the Vivelab, a center for creation, development and research work at the University of Caldas, and yesterday was inaugurated by President Juan Manuel Santos, during his visit to the city.

After his tour of the Winter mitigation works in the industrial area, the president appeared at the Ecopark The National Network Yarumos Vivelab, it expects to have 17 centers across the country like Manizales.

The president reiterated that the city is the best in digital content development, so chose to open the program, which has training centers in Cali and Popayan. "You begin to identify as the Silicon Valley Manizales country. It's what you should bet, it is an industry that is growing 12% each year, while coffee makes up 3%. Should not give up producing good coffee, it is true, and so give a help in February, for which I was criticized a lot, but the future is in the technology industry. "
He added that the TIC industry the population has access to improved working conditions, which will result in better quality of life.
Felipe César Londoño, program coordinator of Visual Design at the University of Caldas, said the Vivelab has three areas: computer room for the development of digital content, such as scale renderings or 3D images, video and animations.
Besides training space, which may be in college, but also by a LivingLab or mobile laboratory, equipped with digital tablet, and a computer lab with 19 cameras that capture the movements of the human body and face to be scanned.
With more scholarships

Speaking to THE NATION, the Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, Diego Molano said invested $ 20 billion in the National Network of Vivelab, plus about $ 36 billion in the program Digital Talent, for empowering people. "We are showing that companies are starting in this field, it moves 28 times more money than coffee.'s A first stone put is an effort of the national government, universities, Parquesoft. From here, for example, can out next Facebook or the next Google, "said Molano.
To create the Vivelab Manizales, the TIC Ministry has invested about $ 1,000 million, while the counterpart of the region amounted to $ 500 million. The center will operate in partnership with the City of Manizales and the University of Caldas and will serve to enhance the development of video and animations on second and third dimension.
Cristian Camilo Gallego is a student in the call selected Digital Talent and thanks to this study Systems Technology at the University of Caldas. Yesterday he attended the inauguration of Vivelab and says surely this center will help them develop their ideas in technology, so he feels that with the digital lab city will have more opportunities in this field.

What is Silicon Valley?
It is the southern area of ​​the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States, which houses many of the largest technology corporations in the world and thousands of small businesses in formation. It is the leading center for innovation and development of high technology, receiving a third of the venture capital investment in the United States.
The figure


50 new jobs will be generated with the Vivelab Manizales, according to the deputy minister TIC, María Carolina Hoyos.
Photo | Courtesy University of Caldas | LA PATRIA training center and digital content development Vivelab is at the University of Caldas.