Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Free, Internet "on board", online festivals and digital libraries by Otello Zorina

The autonomous communities are open to the Internet and new information technologies (ICT) initiatives such as free software free, massive celebrations for Internet, digital libraries or a network connection by tram.

Indeed, the report "Information Society in Spain 2008" published by the Fundación Telefónica, evidence that the Internet has becoming more and more presence in the autonomous regions through, inter alia, the introduction of broadband.

Under the slogan "Free Internet for All ', Cantabria has subsidized the installation charge for a whole year without a home network, while Extremadura has made one hundred percent of its territory have access to this type of connection under Plan Extension of broadband.

Another initiative is to promote Internet Network Asturcon the Principality, which aims to connect the municipalities of over 1,000 inhabitants of remote villages as the main coal basin and eastern municipalities of Asturias and Nava, Arriondas, Infiesto, or Navia Ribadesella.

And it is to break the gap distance to the urban areas of the countryside in terms of communications is one of the key objectives of the communities, especially those with more dispersed population.

Free access

Thus, Andalusia has launched the Network Guadalinfo formed by centers that allow users to access Internet software and utilities free of charge, both in towns of under 20,000 residents in neighborhoods with the greatest risk of social exclusion of its eight capital.

Several communities are also bidding for free software-free software that can be developed by users, such as the Balearic Islands and the reserve system "Avanthotel" which has sold to hotels or to your portal LaFarga.cat Catalonia.

Madrid is the CCAA with the highest Internet penetration, more than 53 percent of its population, which is to be improved by initiatives such as Digital Cities, which has introduced ICT in thirteen local authorities and will be extended to all community with the Digital Region project Madrid.

Castilla-La Mancha is not left behind, then used to send SMS to mobile users to communicate with those interested in receiving notices of the Board of Communities castellanomanchega.

¿Internet on the bus? No, not a thing of the future, but the pilot project "Internet on-board" of Canary Islands that allowed passengers to the Tenerife tram, a bus line of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura-Lanzarote ferry connecting to the network via 3G for a month.

TICS AND EDUCATION

Platform E-Ducat, developed by Aragon, is another example of the application of ICT in everyday life, and that is not only a useful tool for teachers, but also allows parents to track the activities performed by students.

They say that knowledge does not take place, but the fact is that books and documents themselves, so that initiatives such as the digital library of Navarre, BiNaDI, make available to all users, wherever they are, a rich cultural heritage which would otherwise be inaccessible.

There is also one of the uses of ICT more popular in the Information Society: the leisure and entertainment, which has its ultimate expression in the "keep" the fans who gather in a massive house in years such as the famous quotations Campus Party Valencia or Bilbao Euskal Encounter.

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