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Cristina Fernández toured Google´s offices established in Buenos Aires. From theres, she emphasized the significance of IT communication networks and the further challenge to be met consisting of “creating wealth out of intelligence”.
Escorted by Lino Barañao, the Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, the head of State attended the inauguration ceremony of the new offices Google opened up in Buenos Aires last Friday June 6th. Actually, this undertaking features the company´ s third operation base around the world, its other headquarters being located in the United States and Ireland respectively.
She also remarked the importance of the Internet as an “infrastructure foundation targeted at development” and the values Argentina is endowed with to significantly boost IT communication. "The leadership capacity and the entrepreneurial attitude” displayed by Argentine people was also highlighted in the speech delivered by the company´s CEO Gonzalo Alonso.
Google owns three national hubs, located respectively in California (USA), Dublin (Ireland) and Buenos Aires. In fact, the latter provides assistance to all Latin American Spanish-speaking customers including those from Spanish and Italian descent” explained the Communications Director for Latin America Alberto Arébalos to the news agency Telam.
The offices set up in Buenos Aires count on a staff made up of 100 twenty-five-year old professionals specialized in different areas.
"We do not rule out the possibility that we may open up a software engineering center here in the coming future", remarked Arébalos.
In turn, the Argentine president Cristina Fernández thanked Google for having placed its trust in Argentina and also emphasized the changes that are being triggered as a result of the high degree of communications.
The degree of information and the way it is currently being defined implies “the challenge of developing new ethics and building wealth" for those “going through times of changes” where “wealth arises out of intelligence", explained the head of the state.
She also highlighted “the significant role played by Argentina in terms of production in cultural industries. In fact, the OECD countries´ cultural industry accounts for an average 3.5% of their GDP. With respect to Argentina, its cultural industry reflects 3.1% of its GDP. As regards Brazil and Chile, this figure actually stands at 1.8 % and 1.4% respectively.
This state-of-affairs definitely unveils two phenomena: on the one hand, our Argentine human resources´ outstanding capabilities, and on the other, the high skill labor resulting from an education system that has been in force for a long time.”
