Portuguese Constructed with technology, Canaima (local name of Magellan) laptops are being used in technical schools of Venezuela to bring new generations of Venezuelans complex sciences like robotics.
The initiative came from the Ministry of Popular Power for Education in conjunction with the Bolivarian Centre for Informatics and Telematics, through “learning by doing”, implemented in institutions such as Gregory McGregor Technical School in El Valle, southwest of Caracas.
“We have a technology program that was a very productive experience.’s boys built training modules, a kind of matrix board or motherboard where soldered integrated circuits and modulators,” explained professor of electronics Francisco Botifoll.
The replicas were created board connected to portable, allowing children to perform tests using computer programs.
According Botifoll Francisco, the program introduction to technology is frequented by children as young as five years of age and technological “solutions” that Venezuela develops follow international standards of ‘software’ and ‘free’ hardware ‘.
On the other hand, according to Leonel Parica, President of the Bolivarian Foundation Informatics and Telematics and also general director of technology from the Ministry of Education of Venezuela, the Government has “democratized technology” that “no longer a luxury” to be accessible to all.
He stated that responsible thanks to cooperation agreements between Lisbon and Caracas 3,474,753 laptops were distributed in Venezuelan schools.
“If 1% of users (children) go to developing free software in 10 years we will have 34 000 people programming and this is a bet on a better country and technological sovereignty, “he explained.
According to Leonel Parica, there are currently 2,800 Bolivarian computer centers and telematics in Venezuela, including 330 technical schools that will impel the children to create web pages and computer applications.
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