Growth is forecast in Costa Rica in 2016 in the volume of business, mainly in the area of "cloud" services which are designed to automate and streamline business processes.
Luis Carlos Chaves, president of the Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (CAMTIC) told elfinancierocr.com that "... The industry has continued to grow and there is strong demand for 2016," referring to business growth and places of employment.
The use of smartphones in the corporate world should be subject to data protection policies and carefully controlled by IT departments.
According to an article in elfinancierocr.com, companies must create mobile device management (MDM) policies in order to ensure information is accessed securely. An inventory of devices also needs to be kept with and provision made to enable them to accessed remotely by IT departments.
Today and tomorrow, companies from 12 countries are meeting in Costa Rica to build ties and identify potential partnerships.
The forum, organized by Costa Rica's export promotion agency (Procomer) and the Chamber of Information and Communication technologies (CAMTIC), will bring together 35 companies from Germany, Canada, China, Guatemala, USA, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and India.
The event will bring together information and communication technology, tourism, health and welfare tourism, engineering, architecture and design and audiovisual production sectors for the first time.
During this event, which will take place on June 3 and 4, the well-know Costa Rica Technology Insight, which will celebrate its sixth edition this year will also take place.
Its 6th edition will be held in June 3 - 4 during Costa Rica’s Services Summit, a business conference organized by Procomer and CAMTIC.
The event will be held at the San Jose Palacio Costa Rica Hotel in San Jose.
Technology Insight has managed to position Costa Rica as one of the most competitive destinations in Latin America, as the consulting firm AT Kearny confirmed in its "Destination Latin America: A Near-Shore Alternative 2007" survey.
The Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (CAMTIC for its acronym in Spanish) is a nonprofit private trade organization for IT companies representative in Costa Rica & Central America.
Organization that operates in Costa Rica
Phone: (506) 22832205
More mobility and lower operating costs: The interaction between computers and telephone services has matured and the entry costs are accessible.
The important thing is that when the return on investment is taken into account, opting for IP technology for communications is a decision increasingly favored in companies. That return on investment is not only in lower operating costs than those of telephone exchange services, but also in higher productivity.
Last year at least 82 IT companies lost a total of $72 million because they lack some 2,300 computer technicians and professionals.
This data comes from a diagnosis done by the Chamber of Information Technology and Communication (Camtic), with support from universities, in order to know the panorama and to provide proposals that will improve it.
For example, the creation of a national plan for technological formation, an innovation center and an agency specialized in IT, to name a few.
Costa Rica has a deficit of some 2,300 professionals with technical skills, and the shortfall in human resources is causing problems for both national and foreign-based companies.
Many companies have been unable to find candidates for posts in areas such as programing, database management and network security.
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