On Monday, President Luis Abinader received more than half a million electronic devices (tablets), which will be delivered to public primary school students.
The president indicated that with this delivery, the government reaffirms its political will to close the digital divide, one of the main goals of his administration, to ensure that the benefits of technology reach all people and leave no one behind.
The 537,432 tablets were obtained through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Global Purchase Mechanism with an investment of RD $ 5,559,522,338.
Today we receive and deliver 537,432 tablets. That represents 67% of the total amount pledged, which is 800,000 tablets.
At this point I would like to thank the work of UNDP and the Ministry of Education for working together and achieving this difficult goal, ”said the president.
He explained that the centralized purchase through the United Nations Procurement Center enabled savings on the Dominican state’s treasury of $ 18 million.
The Minister of Education, Roberto Fulcar, said that “the 537,432 tablets we receive today, out of a total of 800,000 devices purchased for primary education, added to a total of 121,000 already distributed in Regional Education # 8 located in Santiago de los Caballeros, we would manage to deliver one device per student to 34% of the remaining, in just 7 months of government management. The investment of the devices we receive today is part of the 800,000 devices, which they reach an investment of RD $ 8,282,618,895.12 ”.
For the supply of electronic devices, the schools of the 48 municipalities that started face-to-face education are given priority and then distributed in the other centers.
The tablets remain in the warehouse of the Ministry of Education in Haina, where a symbolic delivery was made to primary school students.