Immediately, we’re excited to announce the opening of our places of work in San Salvador. This is a vital step as we transfer ahead in our dedication to assist help the nation’s digital transformation, together with the modernization of its authorities providers and financial improvement.
Since August 2023, once we introduced the collaboration settlement signed with El Salvador, now we have centered on supporting the nation in modernizing its processes and the providers offered to its residents, in addition to providing coaching to totally different authorities entities. Along with saying the opening of our new workplace, we additionally wish to share the progress now we have made as a part of this settlement within the areas of digital authorities, well being and schooling:
- Digital authorities. We labored hand-in-hand with the federal government in its journey to develop easy digital ecosystems for import, export, well being and sanitary registration. Subsequent steps will likely be to proceed supporting the federal government on growing platforms that permit interoperability between establishments and enhance citizen providers by digitization.
- Healthcare. As a primary vital step, we’ve educated totally different authorities companies on the way to use cloud applied sciences. Now, we’re supporting the federal government within the improvement of its telemedicine platform with cutting-edge applied sciences, like synthetic intelligence, to automate processes and produce extra entry to well being providers within the nation.
- Schooling. Constructing on a collaboration with El Salvador’s Ministry of Schooling since 2020, we’re proud to help a long-term venture placing expertise on the middle of enhancing educating and studying within the nation’s public schooling system. The primary part started by delivering Google Workspace for Schooling accounts to all college students in public faculties and coaching academics by the Ministry of Schooling’s Nationwide Institute for Trainer Coaching (Instituto Nacional de Formación Docente del Ministerio de Educación). We’re supporting the acceleration of that program by delivering probably the most superior Google Workspace for Schooling Plus instruments that incorporate AI to personalize the educational expertise and introducing Chromebooks, laptops working Chrome OS, an working system manufactured by Google, for fourth grade college students. The following step is to proceed coaching pedagogical managers to multiply the digital abilities of academics and college students in El Salvador.
In accordance with a Google-funded examine from AlphaBeta, digital applied sciences equivalent to cloud computing and AI may create a possible alternative for as much as $3.4 trillion per yr of financial influence within the main and rising economies in Latin America, Japanese Europe, Africa and the Center East by 2030. We see our collaboration with the Authorities of El Salvador as a testomony of this potential.
Boosting entrepreneurship in El Salvador
Along with our new workplace presence and the present digital transformation efforts underway, Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, will present a donation of $200,000 USD to civil society organizations within the area to offer digital abilities coaching to native entrepreneurs to assist help the expansion of native companies.
Innovation and expertise have helped thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe. It’s the coordinated motion of governments, the personal sector, and civil society that interprets the advantages into financial progress and stability for all communities and folks to profit.
