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The National Telecommunications Program Pronatel and Microsoft today signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement that will provide knowledge and technological tools to the beneficiary citizens of the Digital Access Centers CAD initiative to face the new digital world. In this way more than 176 thousand citizens from 104 beneficiary localities of the CAD initiative will be able to access virtually and free of charge issues related to the use and exploitation of ICTs which will also be available for the participation of community digital leaders. These training activities are part of the Digital Skills Program that Microsoft has been implementing in the region in order to provide its capabilities and experience to strengthen basic and medium digital skills as well as soft skills of the most vulnerable population. This inter-institutional cooperation agreement was signed by the executive director of Pronatel Renato Delgado and by Giovanna del Carmen Cortez general manager of Microsoft Peru. Currently citizens turn to CADs to use Internet access mainly for schoolwork searching for information working in Microsoft Office using computer equipment checking and using their email virtual school classes as well as virtual trainings and courses. Likewise public procedures are carried out such as consultations on the digital platforms of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation Sunat Reniec SIS the Together Program of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion the Banco de la Nacin among others. The CAD initiative is operating in the regions of Cusco Ayacucho Apurimac Huancavelica Lambayeque and Lima provinces through which digital literacy and inclusion are promoted. Pronatel an entity under the Vice Ministry of Communications reaffirms its commitment to continue joining efforts to accelerate the expansion of coverage access and use of the internet in rural areas of Peru.
