Aguascalientes, Ags., November 10, 2022.- The training of mentors on the topic of digital villages began at the Panamericana by Mtro. Andrés Díaz Bedolla, Head of the Service Office for Latin America Alibaba.com. At the event, he was accompanied by Luis Arturo Cabrera Jiménez, Undersecretary for MSMEs; Erika Muñoz Vidrio, President of MEMAC Aguascalientes; and Mtro. Israel de Jesús Gallegos Parra, Director of Institutional Development at the Aguascalientes campus. The objective of these trainings, says Andrés, is "tocreate technological innovation processes focused on young people, and that, at the same time, have an impact on society as a whole".
Alibaba Training
Professors and collaborators of the Aguascalientes campus will undergo a two-month training with several executives from Alibaba Group. This will enable them to achieve certification in digital transformation and, subsequently, transmit this same knowledge in a more grounded and practical way to the students of our institution.
The objective is to certify a thousand young university students, who are familiar with the concepts and their implementation of the different elements of digital transformation.
The idea is to grow the industrial part of the entire hydrocalida community. As Andrés comments, "we will select two hundred companies from the State of Aguascalientes. Each of them will receive a team of a mentor and five young people to work together for a year. We want to make industry much more competitive with the help of technology".
Project Initiations
The whole project began when Andrés talked to entrepreneurs in Mexico City about what digital villages are and the positive transformation they have caused in several states of the Republic, such as Guanajuato, which has had great success in implementing such strategies. Later he was invited to our institution due to the great interest that his talk aroused, in which he basically addressed the issue of developing the economy by promoting all the different digital tools in places where there are technological backwardness.
Israel Gallegos Parra comments: "Andrés invited us to see what digital villages are and what they have transformed in many places. We proposed to start digital villages in Aguascalientes. We must fight so that the digital divide that exists becomes smaller and smaller.
It is necessary to promote these new technological tools to continue with the progress within our institution and our state. This is so that Aguascalientes continues to be such a pleasant place in the eyes of both national and international businessmen. It is important to encourage teachers, so that they, in turn, push young people to continue with their growth within these skills, which will be very necessary in the near future.
