Costa Rica Connected Homes project recognized by UN
Costa Rica's Connected Homes project, part of the national telecommunications fund Fonatel administered by the country's regulator Sutel, has been selected for the 2016 Champion Project Award at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The program was nominated in the Access to Information and Knowledge category and was among the five highest-voted projects in the category, according to a Fonatel release.
As a result, the project was recognized as a Champion Project and is positioned as a finalist for the award ceremony to be held in Geneva, Switzerland on May 3.
The awards are organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations. They include 400 projects from around the world registered in 18 categories.
"The WSIS awards are a platform to identify and showcase success stories and models that can strengthen the community at the local level," explains the competition website.
Fonatel is set to provide more than 13,000 students with internet access in the Sarapiquí region in the near future, having budgeted US$57mn for these kinds of projects in 2016.
The project has so far benefited more than 200,000 people, including students at 389 schools and four indigenous communities in the Matambú area.
Fonatel's resources come from a 1.5% levy on the revenues generated by telecom operators.
Earlier this year, state-owned telco ICE was named as the biggest contributor to Fonatel, having paid in more than 31bn colones (US$57.8mn) to the program between 2010 and 2015.
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