20 years of Guadalinfo centers in the province – Linares28 – El diario digital de Linares

Paco Reyes, president of the Diputación de Jaén, highlighted the role that Guadalinfo centers have played in the last 20 years in the digitization of the province and in closing the digital gap there. This was highlighted in a round table where the provincial administration initiated the program of commemorative events for the 20th anniversary of the launch of the public access centers to the Internet, and which was also attended by the director general of the Consorcio, Juan Francisco Delgado Fernando de los Rios and the current executive vice president of the Fundación Europea de Innovación. – as well as Juan Francisco Delgado, director of the Secretariat of Educational Technologies and Teaching Innovations of the University of Jaen.

In this act, Reyes pointed to the importance of these centers in the digital formation of Jiennese citizens in these two decades. To show his satisfaction for being the protagonist of the Diputación de Jaén, “There is nothing very good about the fact that today these centers have the importance and foundation they had 20 years ago,” he said. from that moment, from the hands of the Junta de Andalucía and also from the city councils, to put this tool at the disposal of the citizens, creating something that would not be possible without the participation and commitment of the dynamizers who form it. estos centros a lo largo de estos 20 años is part”.

In this sense, he recalled that the context in which Guadalinfo emerged was completely different from the actual context. “20 years ago the Internet did not reach most of the territory of the province, there were people with computers, but the network did not reach their municipalities and the decision was made to deploy these tools to protect Jaen or Andalusia. una brecha más a lo largo de suhistoria, esto es, la brecha digital “.

It was in December 2004 that the Diputación de Jaén signed an agreement with the Xunta de Andalucia allowing the opening of these centers. Today, “in all municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants we have public internet centers with the participation of the Diputación,” said Reyes of Guadalinfo's twenty years of activity and development. “881,000 euros are allocated to these centers every year, which means more than 5.2 million investments in the last six years alone,” he said.

Through the program of activities celebrating this 20th anniversary, it seeks to highlight the importance of these centers and “to communicate the true history of the instrument that has played a key role in the digitization of Andalusia and the 97 provincial municipalities, even if the name has been changed”. Therefore, in addition to this round table as, the Diputación de Jaén will carry out events in the various comarcas of Jaén – starting on November 11 in Carboneros and continuing until December – to recognize the alcaldes, dynamizers and people who use the estos centers.

In his intervention at this round table, Juan Francisco Delgado noted that the creation of Guadalinfo centers “was a very important collective illusion in the municipalities” and recalled that this was when the first Guadalinfo was created in the city of La Puerta de Segura. all Andalucia llegar al miles que actualmente hay en la comunidad autonoma opened. “Los dynamizadores y dynamizadoras de los mismos, junto con los alcaldes, han sido los grandes protagonistas de los centros” que son “un modelo de governance, ya que deputaciones, ayuntamientos, Junta de Andalucía, Gobiernos central aunailante paradobande. la brecha digital” , he emphasized.

For Delgado, “all beneficiarias of the network of centers, éstos ha hecho los más libres y con más capacidad para acceder al conocimiento”, “this is a valuable loss to darle mayor”, he said. Guadalinfo remembering lo que han sido, cómo han empezado y lo bien que se empleó el dinero de las differenta institución en generar esta red”.

Finally, the director of the Secretariat of Educational Technologies and Teaching Innovation of the University of Jaén (UJA) noted that Guadalinfo “is the training centers and transformers of the area because it is the University of Jaén” and highlighted how estos centros work. Public connection for “injection of vitality” on the Internet.