Dominican Republic promotes entrepreneurship through a simultaneous event in 160 countries

The Dominican Republic is one of the 160 countries that celebrates today, and until Sunday, November 19, the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW, for its acronym in English), which is organized every year with the aim of connecting entrepreneurs with potential collaborators, mentors and investors.

Santo Domingo, Nov 13 (EFE). - The Dominican Republic is one of the 160 countries that celebrates today, and until Sunday, November 19, the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW, for its acronyms in English), which is organized every year with the aim of connecting entrepreneurs with potential collaborators, mentors and investors.

The agenda of the event in the Caribbean country includes more than 30 activities between competitions, workshops, talks and conferences, which will take place in Santo Domingo, Santiago (the second city in the country, north), La Romana (east), La Vega (interior) and San Pedro de Macoris (southeast).

This is the second year that the Dominican Republic celebrates this international activity associated with the use of technology, innovation, competitiveness and employment generation, and that has the support of dozens of world leaders and a network of more than 15,000 partner organizations.

The initiative was born in 2008 from the Mauff of the Kauffman Foundation and is considered as the celebration of the world's greatest innovators and job creators, celebrated simultaneously in all nations participants.

In the country, it is sponsored by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and SMEs (MICM), Education Science and Technology (Mescyt), and Banreservas, institutions that left the activity inaugurated with an event held this afternoon in a hotel in the capital.

As organizers of the event, these institutions pointed out that this The initiative is "a celebration based on the philosophy of collaboration and the demonstration of what is the impact of entrepreneurship for countries."

The Director of Entrepreneurship MICM, José Miguel Checo, said in his opening speech that the GEW is "the ideal opportunity to connect Dominican entrepreneurs with the institutions that provide them support ".

For its part, the director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility of Banreservas, Julianne Guerrero, referred to the CREE program that her organization develops in favor of entrepreneurs contributing "the necessary resources for the implementation" of the projects and "providing the support and advice they require for their development".

Today, In addition to the inauguration, the conferences "Learning to undertake, by the MICM, and" Women and Technology in the Dominican Republic ", organized by the entity Mujeres TICs, were held. RD.

Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic have aligned their entrepreneurial development activities to give a message of unity of support ecosystem of the region, an effort coordinated by the Regional Center for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprises (Cenpromype), specialized entity of the Integration System Central American (SICA).