Mexico Conectado Program is awarded with an international prize

Mexico, Jun. 13 (Notimex).- The Programa Puntos de Mexico Conectado (PMC, for its acronym in Spanish) program, under the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT, for its acronym in Spanish), was awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU, for its acronym in Spanish) in the "Skills The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

"The Puntos MexicoConectado program of ReformaTelecom was awarded by the ITU with the WSIS2017 award as the best," SCT head Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said in his Twitter account.

The WSIS Awards are an international mechanism for evaluating and recognizing individuals, governments, society, local, regional and international agencies, research institutions and private companies that implement ICT-oriented strategies as a facilitator for development.

Meanwhile, the network of Puntos MexicoConectado is a project that the SCT launched in March 2015, derived from the constitutional reform in telecommunications, which consists of 32 community training centers and digital education, one in each Federative entity.

The program aims to contribute to achieving universal access to broadband and new ICTs to provide digital knowledge and skills useful to the population, as well as promote entrepreneurship and technological development, through the free courses provided there, the SCT explained.

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