SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this Tuesday that the OECD Ministerial Conference held recently in Gran Canaria has placed the Canary Islands at the “vanguard” of digitization.
In response to a question from NC, he has admitted that “it will not be easy” for a conference of these characteristics to be repeated in an “insular and outermost territory” but has assessed that the ‘Canary Islands Declaration’ that is committed to privacy and sharing data places the islands “in the center of the world”.
He has also highlighted that three projects have been recruited for the archipelago, one of them ‘Spain Lab’, with almost 50 million, and that “Canarian talent” has been promoted, such as the fact that the first house in the world built in 3D is in Arinaga ( Gran Canaria), an unmanned submarine from Plocan that has discovered more in one year than others in 100 or a prosthesis designed by the ITC for a boxing fighter.
The NC spokesman, Luis Campos, has highlighted the “extremely important relevance” of the summit in a key aspect for daily life such as digitization and hopes that this initiative does not stop at simply “hosting”.
For this reason, it has encouraged the regional government to “take advantage of the synergies and singularities” of the archipelago to develop its “strength” in digital sectors and apply it to astrophysics or ocean science.
