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06-26-2006, 03:10 PM
President Leonel Fernandez continues to push for more investment in the Dominican Republic, and is making the most of his stay in California to meet with key business leaders, such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the owners of Google.com. Fernandez is trying to get people like Brin and Page to invest in technology in the Dominican Republic's Cyberpark located near Boca Chica. The two founders of Google expressed their support to projects underway to encourage young entrepreneurs to enter into high tech areas, according to the Presidency press office. Brin and Page offered Fernandez to help the Dominican government in the area of Internet communications, utilizing the platform used by the US government. The Google heads also offered to participate in the development of virtual communities with expatriate Dominicans. Through google.org, they offered to assist the government in social projects, as reported in El Caribe.
Fernandez then met with the chief executives of Nanosolar, who also promised the Dominican President their assistance in the development of new technologies for renewable energy. The Cyberpark will participate in an innovative solar energy project that will use new materials manufactured by Nanosolar to reduce the cost of solar energy installations by 50 or 60%. In Silicon Valley, President Fernandez met with Martin Roscheisen and Brian Sager of Nanosolar. As reported in Diario Libre, President Fernandez expressed his interest that the company in the future may manufacture these materials in the DR for export to the East Coast of the US, the Caribbean and Latin America.
President Fernandez also took time to meet with leaders in the film industry in California and offered his support for the continued production of films in the DR. He attended a dinner in his honor offered by Brad Ratner of X-Men-fame in Beverly Hills and a meeting with Todd McFarlane, of The Incredible Man and Spiderman-fame.
He also met with the Department of Water and Energy of Los Angeles and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and requested support for a program to reduce losses, increase service collections and installation of prepaid meters in the DR, as reported in Hoy.
In LA, President Leonel Fernandez also pitched the symbolic first ball prior to a Pittsburgh Pirates vs. LA Dodgers game.
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Fernandez then met with the chief executives of Nanosolar, who also promised the Dominican President their assistance in the development of new technologies for renewable energy. The Cyberpark will participate in an innovative solar energy project that will use new materials manufactured by Nanosolar to reduce the cost of solar energy installations by 50 or 60%. In Silicon Valley, President Fernandez met with Martin Roscheisen and Brian Sager of Nanosolar. As reported in Diario Libre, President Fernandez expressed his interest that the company in the future may manufacture these materials in the DR for export to the East Coast of the US, the Caribbean and Latin America.
President Fernandez also took time to meet with leaders in the film industry in California and offered his support for the continued production of films in the DR. He attended a dinner in his honor offered by Brad Ratner of X-Men-fame in Beverly Hills and a meeting with Todd McFarlane, of The Incredible Man and Spiderman-fame.
He also met with the Department of Water and Energy of Los Angeles and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and requested support for a program to reduce losses, increase service collections and installation of prepaid meters in the DR, as reported in Hoy.
In LA, President Leonel Fernandez also pitched the symbolic first ball prior to a Pittsburgh Pirates vs. LA Dodgers game.
Link To Original Article (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)