Costa Rica could be country destination for pilot UN plan • costadevelopers.com

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Costa Rica could be the first country in Latin America that has a laboratory of Global Pulse, called press Lab, because the Government already requested the United Nations assess to Costa Rica as a destination country.
The Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations, Eduardo Ulibarri started this year a rapprochement with Roberto Kirkpatrick, leader of Global press, after which the President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla said in May the Secretary General of the UN, Ban-ki Moon to assess to the country as a destination to start operations with a laboratory.
Press Labs are centers of technological innovation that are installed in countries where there is a use of local knowledge and innovation, which are woven alliances and create approaches for monitoring data in real time to solve problems and opportunities.
Participate in these centers analysts, developers’ designers and staff from the public and private sectors, as well as members of the United Nations to explore ideas and develop tools able to recognize "smoke signals" digital arising from different data.
The United Nations decided to carry out a feasibility study in Costa Rica to contemplate the establishment of a press Lab in Costa Rica, followed, almost with certainty their implementation give the country.
This study which still does not have a specific date, would take about a month and a half and its cost would be around $20 thousand dollars. The funding is managed by Costa Rica. With these possible allies, local conditions would be identified and to what extent it could access data.
"They have shown interest because Costa Rica has certain technological and academic development, a set of resources suitable for a centre of this kind and there are historically a tradition of non-intervention of the Government, international agencies opening and a civil society responsive to these opportunities", told Ulibarri to La Nacion newspaper.
Currently there are laboratories in New York, Kampala in Uganda and another in Jakarta Indonesia. If the opening is given in Costa Rica, it would be the first country in Latin America to have press Lab.
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