The Fidelia María Navas school is one of the 10 educational institutions in La Guajira that already have high-speed internet service thanks to Enlaza, a subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá, which launched a pilot to bring internet through the fiber optic cable that is part of the high-voltage transmission networks. electric power
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“We are going to be able to research our assignments, be able to use the computer room; we are very happy for being able to have more computers to research our assignments and do many things with it because the internet is too important,” said Liliangely García, third grade student.
With an investment of 4,000 million pesos and a novel idea, more than 4,000 children and 60 teachers are the beneficiaries of this project Internet
which has guaranteed resources for its operation for the next 5 years.
“Explain to the children before what the internet was like and it was more traditional because we did not have the facility for them to have direct practice on how to access that service,” said Rosalina Zapata, a teacher who benefited from the Internet.
The ICT Minister, Mauricio Lizcano, stated that he will expand the nodes to carry moreInternet
through electrical energy networks to other more remote sectors of Colombian territory.
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