Soin Soluciones Integrales S.A. has won a contract in Costa Rica to provide the Costa Rican Electricity Institute with sustainability services for a BSS solution and integrated complements.
The contracting institution is the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and the works consist of services for sustainability under the BSS solution and integrated complements for a period of 14 months, renewable for three equal periods.
The Colon Free Zone is putting out to tender renewal of the main infrastructure of the electronic system to report commercial movements and the expansion of the same system for the Colón Free Port.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-2-96-0-03-LA-007574:
"The Administration of the Colon Free Zone wishes to hire a company for the 'technological renewal of the electronic system for declaring commercial movement (DMCE)' in order to maintain DMCE services, updating the platform, increasing the capacity of the system and minimizing disruption of electronic exchange of documentation for international trade.
A tender is being launched in Panama to update the technology platform, hardware and software, data centers and telecommunications network for the computer management system of the Adversarial Criminal Justice System.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-1-46-0-08-LP-002640:
"The National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG) requires the services of adjusting the platform used by the Adversarial Criminal Justice System (PTSPA) in two data centers within the Republic of Panama, as well as the renovation of the entire current technological infrastructure (servers, load balancers, firewall, etc.), management and monitoring of all components of the solution, telecommunications service and storage solution and replication in both data centers, so as to ensure the proper functioning of the management criminal adversarial system.
The Ministry of Public Security in Panama is putting out to tender the design and implementation of a technology platform to collect, centralize and systematize data and information at the INAMU.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-0-18-01-08-LP-028060:
"Some of the activities to be developed:
-Review all instruments provided by the INAMU to collect data and information.
The Customs Authority will be launching a tender this year to purchase a computer system that supports the current volume of transactions handled by the entity.
The National Customs Authority (ANA) announced that it is preparing the tender conditions for the acquisition of a new IT platform for customs offices, which will be published shortly on the PanamaCompra website, reported Panamaamerica.com.pa.
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is inviting bids for the realization, final preparation, going live and post production support, of an Integrated System for the institution.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2016LA-000008-0000400001:
"The ICE is developing Administrative Modernisation Financial Program (PMAF by its initials in Spanish) in order to adopt best practices in the administrative and financial processes and information systems in the areas of Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources and Project Management.
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 judiciary is pre qualifying companies interested in developing and implementing the technology platform which interconnects the three institutions of the justice and security sectors of Honduras.
Honduras Government Purchase EuropeAid-IH-137 482-BE-HN:
"This platform must primarily develop specific information systems for each institution and information flows according to the institutional and inter-agency processes of the Honduran penal system.
The communication and technology sector predicts that for the next two years it will hire more technical staff and university graduates than licensed professionals with master's degrees or doctorates.
The need for staff with technical rather than academic skills continues to grow in the field of technology and communications. A study by the Chamber of Information Technology and Communication concludes that only 2% of companies in the technology sector in the country plan to hire professionals with a PhD, while only 32% said they expected to hire graduates.
Product marketing companies are paying the highest average monthly salary, of $2,234, followed by those in the technology and communications sector, with $2,172, and thirdly, service companies, with $2,008.
A study by Talent Partner carried out for La Nacion indicates that in general "... a basic operator makes $715, while someone in a management position earns $5,800, as an average median of the amounts processed." In the case of a professional or analyst, the salary is $1,600, while for intermediate supervisors it is $2,400.
Cable & Wireless Panama’s acquires local company Sonitel, a provider also in El Salvador, Peru, and Nicaragua B2B markets.
Cable & Wireless Communications, Plc (CWC), through its subsidiary Cable & Wireless Panamá, S. A. (CWP), today announces that it has agreed to acquire Panama-based Grupo Sonitel for US$36 million plus contingent consideration of up to an additional US$5 million.
The Tax Authority is inviting bids for supplying a technology platform and cloud services to replace the current system.
This was announced by Carlos Munoz, chief of the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT).
"The decision comes after the executive decided to conduct an "operational intervention" to increase control of customs procedures in order to increase revenue," noted an article in Elperiodico.com.gt.
It is no longer necessary to travel to engage in face to face communication within companies or with customers.
To achieve this, there are various technological solutions which allow the implementation of modern workspaces letting users work efficiently, virtually and from anywhere, says Rowan Trollope, manager of the Collaboration Technologies Group at Cisco.
Nearly three-quarters of newly formed companies arise from ideas that are not very innovative, and there are very few that are export-oriented.
This was revealed by the "National Report 2012: the state of entrepreneurship in Costa Rica". "The research, made with the methodology of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), shows that 73% of new companies created do not offer any new products or services to customers, while for established firms the ratio is 60 % ", reported Nacion.com.
Investments by Panama are resulting in it being positioned next to Chile in the 2013 Information Technology ranking by the World Economic Forum.
The availability of free internet nationwide in 'infoplazas', the provision of computers with Internet access to schools and the implementation of e-government, has allowed Panama to advance its use of new technologies in Latin America.