Vargas Believes Technology is Vital

Indotel signs agreement with Fundación and parish to build center in Miches

The President of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) noted yesterday that one cannot speak of social, economic and educational progress, if technology is not managed.

During the signing of an agreement with the Fundación Cisneros and the La Altagracia parish, in La Gina in Miches, for a technology center there, José Rafael Vargas, Director of Indotel, said that the set back in education is not an obstacle to developing technology programs.

Vargas explained that the countries that have achieved greater social development, such as Ireland, Korea, Japan and Germany, speak not of notebooks and pencils, nor chalkboards and erasers, now that everything comes in a mini computer.

He argued that technology is the education of the century, so much so, that the agency has installed more than 1,100 sites in 32 provinces at which more than three million Dominicans can learn.

He stressed that from the age of three, a child should be involved in technology to the point where they can form a so-called “children’s cyber club.”