There is an urgent need to have ICT consolidated into our productive economy
Telecommunications, Information Society and Internet Day has also been commemorated at PITA, Almería Scientific and Technologic Park, the need to consolidate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a strategic sector in our productive economy has been highlighted.
The boosting roll that ICTs have in the economy is already evident. ICT is a transversal and horizontal tool that positively affects other business areas. “Business productivity improvement cannot be understood without the inclusion of ICTs in the economy. It has also become determinant for new sectors that are called to be a big part in our newxt future gowth: agribusiness, biotechnology, health, education and energy”, as Martin Soler, PITA chairman said. He also highlighted the importance of ICTs social side at present and in the near future due to habit changes in the web access “ICT access is called to become a universal right to citizens” Soler said that in this sense in Andalucía region the advance achieved is important, our standards are similar to the rest of Spain in terms of home equipment and our businesses are similar to Europe’s”. He remembered that in Andalucia there are almost 1400 companies with ICT Technologies and that we rank the third regional government in Spain, just after Madrid and Barcelona. “This sector is better weathering the storm of this crisis. Despite 2009 difficulties there has been a growth in our region in number of companies and jobs”
PITA chairman spoke to the students of Almería School of Arts who were following the conference via PITA web page, broadcasted by the TBC (Technology Based Company) IPTV Solutions “We say hello and want to remind them all the importance that the ICT will have in their curriculum. They are 2.0 generation, the sooner they incorporate these new technologies knowledge to their education, the better professional development and employability it will be achieved.”
Martín Soler inaugurated this conference day together with Jose Luis Casado, Dean of Eastern Andalucía and Melilla Telecommunications Engineers Official College and Alfredo Sánchez, PITA General Manager. José Luis Casado mentioned the main role that cities have in the politics for sustainable development as it has been drawn up in the EU. “In 10 years time the experimental field for many European projects will be cities. In all of them ICTs will be cutting across and sustaining any human activity development”.
Telecommunication Engineers Gerardo Romero (Linka, S.L.) and Juan de la Torre (Facto Ingeniería, S.L.) have run through the already existing ICTs real applications: personal identity, personal security, energy efficiency management, interpersonal communications, etc. Romero has described aspects such as security, comfort or inter relations between different digital systems. Juan de la Torre spoke about Internet as the development engine.
Rafael Abad, telecommunications engineer and General Manager of HABITEC Technologic Centre has talked about social conscience, renewal energies, energy save efficiency cities and the role play that ICTs will have in it.
At the end, Alfredo Sánchez-Gimeno CADIA Ingenieria Managing Director (PITA TBC) and José Luis Estrella, Hispatec Group General Manager, talked about the most sustainable means of transport in the cities that compatible with the economic growth. Examples of interesting projects such as car park credit on share use basis by RFID card system, or bicycle loan and park services.
PITA “Internet Day” celebration also counted with the presence of Sonia Rodriguez, Economy, Innovation and Science Delegate; Francisco Maldonado, Almería Delegate of Education Regional Government; Juan Ramón Muley, School of Arts of Almería Director; Eulalia Moreno CSIC (Superior Council of Scientific Research); Javier Lozano, Director of the Polytechnics School of the Almería University. Also City planners and architects as Alfonso Rubí, Gonzalo Hernández Guarch and José Ángel Ferrer, among other professionals.
