Students of fourth grade of the school Fidel Chaves, in Belén, recognized that their education is better with the Classmates PC.

With the "complicity" of some laptops and the technology WiMAX, the students of the school Fidel Chaves, in Belen, are the first ones in the country that have wireless and wide band connection to Internet.

But in the rest of the year, 11,500 students of 10 urban marginal schools of the western sector of the Great Metropolitan Area will join with these kids.

That is only one of the benefits that will bring the sign of the program "TICS for Education", an agreement between Digital Government and Intel Corporation.

As part of the mission of both entities to reduce the digital gap, they joined efforts to support the Costa Rican education.

The objective of the project is to expand the percentage of Internet coverage and to procure that more students use computers as a tool in their learning process, for any signature and any level, therefore, the agreement includes the donation of laptops.

"One of the priorities of the Corporation is to reduce the digital gap. We are developing the program World Ahead, which includes four pillars: connectivity, education, technology and local content, and Costa Rica is one of the countries that will be benefited with this initiative", said John Davies, Intel’s Sales and Marketing Vice President, who visited Costa Rica.

The Vice President of the Republic, Kevin Casas, emphasized that the signature of this agreement is a very good news, which will give the opportunity to students and teachers to transform their lives. "This reaffirms the transforming power of the alliances between the private and public sector, which function and give good results", commented Casas.

The Vice President of the Republic, Kevin Casas, and the Intel Vice President John Davies signed an MOU to reduce the Costa Rican digital gap. Mohsen Fazlian (GM Intel Costa Rica) and Alejandrina Mata (vice minister of Education) were witnesses of honor.