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SANTO DOMINGO. - With the topic “My country, my community,” the Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) with the support of the Society of Information and Knowledge Commission (CNSIC), called on the hundreds of thousand of users of the computer salons Indotel installed across the country, to take part in the national Blogs competition.
Indotel president Jose Rafael Vargas made the announcement Tuesday, and said the competition will take place during the 12th International Book Fair, slated for April 20 to May 3 in the capital’s Culture Plaza.
The contest’s top winner will get RD$50,000 in cash and a laptop; RD$25,000 and a laptop for second place, and a laptop for third place.
Vargas added that any Internet blog created by users of Indotel’s computer salons prior to April 16, 2009, can participate.
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My sympathies for the organizers!
I know there is plenty of raw talent in DR, that will impress many with their intellectual skills.
Thanks for providing the means for these young people to express themselves; For most people having a computer, and then being able to maintain an internet connection is almost a dream.
You are doing an honarable job! And awarding $1,350, to boot! Chevere!
Now, I hope our Quisqueyan Bloggers don't get bogged down in something I call the "Racial Morass"; Nuestro pueblo es mas que colores, hermanos. Yo soy kaki, como el uniforme de nuestras escuelas, eso es lo que vale. Mi color!
Quisqueya tiene talento!