He CyL Digital Rural program has been consolidated as one of the main instruments of territorial cohesion and fight against digital divide, through a network that already reaches 342 rural associated centers, far exceeding the objective of 300 set for the legislature.
This was stated this Friday by the Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation, José Luis Sanz Merino, during his visit to one of the courses held at the Parque Robledo Social Center, in the Segovian town of Palazuelos de Eresma.
«Exceed 300 centers It was a commitment of the legislature and today we can say that we have not only fulfilled it, but that we have far exceeded it,” highlighted the counselor, for whom this data demonstrates that digitalization in Castilla y León is built from the territory, with the town councils and the neighbors as protagonists.
Likewise, Sanz Merino highlighted the almost 12 million euros invested in this mandate that ends and pointed out that the CyL Digital Rural program is a public policy of equality to learn, to work and to live better especially in the towns, and therefore reaffirmed its commitment to this initiative that, according to it, will continue to expand.
Since 2009, the CyL Digital Rural program has taught a total of 3,631 training activities in person in rural areas in which they have participated 41,642 attendees.
If the CyL Digital Spaces of the provincial capitals are included (to which Ponferrada has now been added), the CyL Digital program of the Government of Castilla y León has developed more than 22,700 face-to-face activitiesmore than 3,100 online and has more than 145,000 registered in-person users.
The regional government has acquired and transferred nearly 2,000 laptop computers to 290 municipalities to promote the creation and operation of CyL Digital associated centers in rural areas.
Added to these are five mobile classrooms that have carried 143 training actions to municipalities without computer centers, also equipped with computers and connectivity.
The program has a network of 62 trainers who work in person and online throughout the community.