Colombian entrepreneurs and software developers presented innovations and ideas to investors and businessmen at an event organized by the ICT Ministry.
Held in the capital Bogota, the “Demo Day” allowed developers like Marco Jaramillo, director of “EgoCity”— a multi-platform publication
The EgoCity website, mobile app, and the soon to be published magazine looks to inform the public on world and local LGBT news, issues, fashion, and connect and support members of the Colombian LGBT community.
A number of the top innovations on display Demo Day looked at helping disabled members of the community. Web-based applications such as “V-Sordos” designed to teach spanish to deaf people, and application “Vision”, a computer tool designed by students from Bucaramanga to help children with visual disabilities.
Other web and mobile applications, such as “Suganet”, which allows the offer and sale of livestock from auctions throughout the country, focused more on the developing the business sphere.
entrepreneurship
Sources:
- MinTIC Presenta las Mejores Aplicaciones Hechas por Colombianos para Colombianos (MinTIC Press release)
- Plan Vive Digital – Tecnología en la vida de cada colombiano (MinTIC)
- Egocity (Egocity.com)