PITA celebrates the Internet International Day with the entrepreneurial day “The security in Internet”
This is the fourth year that the Almería Science and Tecnology Park (PITA) has wanted to celebrate, together with the College of Telecommunication Engineers, the Internet International Day, with an entrepreneurial day. This time in relationship with the security in internet, with the collaboration of the Innovation, Science and Enterprise Regional Ministry and the Andalusia Technology Space Network (RETA). In this session, outstanding speakers related to the information and communication technologies (TIC) participated.
The Delegate of the Innovation, Science and Enterprise Regional Ministry in Almería, Sonia Rodríguez, has inaugurated the event on behalf of the Regional Ministry Martín Soler. In her speech, she stated the effort made by the Regional government to "universalize" the information and communication technologies (TIC) to all the citizens. In this sense, she referred to the "Guadalinfo Centres Network" - the biggest of Europe-, with 734 centres spread by all Andalusia. The Delegate also spoke about the program "1 free Mega", which will give the possibility to all the citizens to have free access to internet. "The aim is to consider the access to internet as a right", Rodríguez appointed.
Apart from outstanding the strengths of internet, the Delegate of the Innovation, Science and Enterprise referred to the weaknesses of the system too. "There is a wrong use of internet. Aware of it, in the Junta de Andalucía web, any andalusian family can download freely a computer program to filter or to stop the access to unwanted pages, with no proper contents for children" Rodríguez stated.
