Allariz, January 30, 2023.- The subdelegate of the Government in Ourense, Emilio González, accompanied by the Chief of Inspection of telecommunications of the province, Enrique Sanmartín, visited this morning the facilities of the cultural project A Casa Vella, in Amiadoso (Allariz), to know the impact of the policies of digitalization of the Government in rural municipalities and in the tourism sector. They reiterated the commitment of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to the total connectivity of the population, a pillar of public action that is being carried out with the UNICO-Broadband Program, within the framework of the Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resilience.
The UNICO-Broadband Program is one of the guidelines of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation to ensure complete connectivity of the poboation in 2025. In addition, it is a strategic element of the policies of the demographic challenge, since the provision of the Internet is a basic service for the economic development of rural areas and the fixation of their population.
In the province of Ourense, 55,773 households and companies will benefit, for which the Government will contribute 20.7 million euros.
Visit to Allariz
The Deputy Government Delegate, Emilio González and the head of telecommunications inspection met the facilities of A Casa Vella with their founders, Nuria Sotelo and Rubén Vilanova, where they verified the incorporation of technology and digital connectivity in the different areas and contributions of their residents to publicize their business of entrepreneurship and rooting and exploitation of cultural insdustrias “generating connectivity to open windows to the world and being able to attract their projects of artistic residences to residents of Latin America.” A project “without which connection and fiber optics” could not exist as its founders pointed out.
Emilio González highlighted the importance of implementing this broadband program to overcome the demographic challenge and prevent the uprooting of rural people in a province such as Ourense. In addition, within the region of Allariz-Maside this project means that not only can you attract talent from outside; but also that the “tourism sector of a villa such as Allariz can evolve and develop with the improvement of connectivity”.
A Casa Vella benefited from the Government’s PEBA program for connectivity, which made it possible to provide the internet to this cultural project that has as its key the dynamization of the rural, which has been key to the consolidation of the business that allows them to carry out dissemination through web channels and attract residents from abroad. Currently, A Casa Vella also participates in a program of the IGAPE and IberScene with funding from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan to “expand and diversify the cultural offer in non-urban areas” and attract talent from Latin America to the dynamization of the area.
In the Concello de Allariz, the UNICO-Broadband Program provides for the extension of broadband to 381 homes and companies located in 78 areas that do not currently have this service. This work will complete the connectivity of Allariz that began with the previous state plan, the PEBA Plan.