- The government delegate visited on Tuesday the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria together with its president, Tomás Dasgoas
The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has valued the “success” of the Digital Kit program of the Government of Spain, managed through Red.es and the chambers of commerce, and which in Cantabria has reached, in the last three years, 9,844 SMEs and self-employed with an investment of 40.2 million euros.
Casares highlighted this Tuesday after his visit to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce in Cantabria together with its president, Tomás Dasgoas, and its general director, Rosa Vega.
The representative of the State has assured that the Kit Digital program, managed in the community together with the Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria, has been a “shared success story” and has become “the largest digitization program in the history of Spain”, with 860,000 small and medium enterprises and autonomous beneficiaries.
“We could not imagine the shared success that was going to be this program to help the digitalization of SMEs in our country, which has even been recognized as a success story by the European Commission,” said Casares, who also detailed that in Cantabria this impulse to digitalization has benefited 36,686 employees.
He has claimed that the Digital Kit has been for many companies in Cantabria, especially SMEs and self-employed, “the first step to dare to digitize and open that window of opportunity that digitalization represents” and has been done by the Government of Spain in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce, which has been responsible for assessing, quantifying and giving the go-ahead to these aids.
It has also valued the work and collaboration of the Government of Spain with the Chamber of Commerce in its “shared objectives” and which are “aid to the productive and business fabric” and guarantee the “path of development” in Cantabria.
In that shared work agenda, Casares highlighted that the Government of Spain has promoted the “greatest reform of the business climate of our country” with laws such as ‘Create and grow’ and that of startups that “are helping the productive and business fabric” and where the Chamber of Commerce is “a fundamental actor”.
The Chamber of Commerce advises more than a thousand people every year who want to undertake and start a business project.
For his part, the President of the Chamber of Commerce thanked the Government delegate for his visit and for his “willingness and interest” in knowing in detail the work carried out by the entity and in collaboration with the State.
“There are many programs that the Government of Spain, through the Chamber of Commerce of Spain, arrives in Cantabria and that are changing the business and self-employed in the community,” said Dasgoas.