Sulá Batsú of Costa Rica signs an Agreement with CEA Digital Law

The Cooperativa Sulá Batsú of Costa Rica, represented by its Manager Kemly Camacho, and Dr. Antonio Tejeda Encinas, President of CEA Digital Law, have signed a mutual collaboration agreement This Costa Rican project, with ten years of work with an emphasis on women’s access to technology, is a social solidarity economy cooperative founded in 2005 with the aim of encouraging and strengthening local development through work with organizations, social enterprises, community networks and social movements at the national, regional and global levels. This goal is pursued through different approaches: digital technologies, art and culture, collective construction and knowledge management, and the social solidarity economy. The TIC-as project developed by the Costa Rican cooperative Sulá Batsú won worldwide recognition at the “EQUALS in Tech Awards” presented by UN Women and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). TIC-as was selected from 297 proposals from around the world and received the award at the United Nations headquarters in Switzerland. Sulá Batsú is made up of professionals from different disciplines; its main work revolves around information technologies, free and open knowledge, culture as a driver of development, and the social and solidarity economy as an alternative for communities .