The Costa Rican Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (Camtic) is a private, non-for-profit business association established in 1998. It was created in order to form a strategic block that would allow to strengthen and support the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. Since Camtic begun its activities representing only the Costa Rican software sector (History), today it groups over 90% of the software national enterprises.
Due to the very recent expansion of Camtic in favor of the rest of ICT sector, new companies from the other ICT segments ( ICT areas ) are starting to incorporate themselves as members. The organization is the only one of its kind in Central America .
Today, Camtic occupies the Executive Vice Presidency of the Latin American Association of Information Technologies' Entities (ALETI) of which is a founding member. Moreover it is a active member of the International Federation of Multimedia Associations (IFMA) and part of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA).
History
The Chamber of Software Producers of Costa Rica (Caprosoft) was created in 1998 by fifteen founding member software firms who foresaw Costa Rica 's potential to become an important international provider of information systems.
Thanks to this vision, in 1999 Caprosoft was able to obtain the first technical cooperation project to increase the competitiveness of a sector software granted by the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) through its Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). Through this cooperation, the Support Program for the Costa Rican Software Sector ( Prosoftware ) was created as a a non-refundable loan managed with participation of the Commerce Promoter of Costa Rica (PROCOMER), the National Center of High Technology (CENAT) and Camtic. Together, this cooperation amounted to a total monetary and a non-monetary support of US$2.5 million.
Caprosoft's clear direction and member support quickly made the Chamber one of the most dynamic business associations in Costa Rica . Caprosoft has successfully supported the growth and development of the country's software sector and continuous to generate a positive impact among its members and on the national economy.
In 2003 Caprosoft developed an intense strategic planning process which resulted in a broad national vision for creating a solid ICT cluster. The planning process and vision design took more than a year to construct and yielded the Information and Communication Technology National Strategy which was named " Costa Rica : Green & Smart"® ( National ICT Strategy ).
Rapid technological changes; changing business models; the growing convergence between informatics, services, and communications; and the need to create a common path for the ICT sector motivated Caprosoft to broaden the scope of the business association and begin incorporating other ICT stakeholders. In June, 2004, Caprosoft - with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MICIT) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX)- launched " Costa Rica : Green & Smart"®. In that same event, Caprosoft made official its expansion and growth process by becoming the Costa Rican Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (Camtic).
Presently, Camtic is the most representative technology association in Central America . The principal task of the association today is the execution of the national ICT strategy.
Founding members
- AIS Servicios de Soporte
- Análisis MBC
- ArtinSoft
- Asesorías Justo a Tiempo de C.R.
- Consultores Profesionales en Informática
- Consultoría y Desarrollo Informático (Codisa)
- Creaciones Digitales (Creadisa)
- Diginet de Costa Rica
- Exactus Programación de C.R.
- Grupo Soluciones Informáticas (GSI)
- Productos Informáticos para el Desarrollo (Prides)
- Proyectos y Sistemas Proyectita
- Soin Soluciones Integrales
- Sysde Computación
- Tecapro de Costa Rica
Timeline
1998
- The Chamber of Software Producers of Costa Rica (Caprosoft) is constituted.
1999
- The Software Sector Competititveness Support Program (Prosoftware) is signed.
2000
- The Software Sector Competititveness Support Program (Prosoftware) is initiated.
2001
- Inauguration of Costa Rica's Software Process Improvement Network - SPIN.
- Pilot program to create local Capability Maturity Model (CMM) implementation and certifying firms is initiated.
2003
- The design for the Strategic Plan is initiated.
- Caprosoft becomes a member of the International Federation of Multimedia Associations (IFMA).
2004
- Caprosoft becomes a member of the World Information Technology and Service Association (Witsa).
- Caprosoft broadens its scope to incorporate the rest of the ICT enterprises and becomes the Costa Rican Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (Camtic).
Mission statement
Integrate and align the diverse information and communication technologies stakeholder's actions while promoting their sustainable and competitive development internationally and enhancing socioeconomic progress nationally.
Objectives
- Effectively integrate and represent the diverse segments that make up the information and communication technologies sector.
- Develop linkage mechanisms with the public and private sector responsible for national development.
- Position and support the sector so that it becomes a successful international provider of products and services.
- Represent the Costa Rican ICT sector to the State, providers and international organizations.
- Seek feasible finance sources to create development projects.
- Unify the ICT export efforts.
- Generate local and international market research.
- Train members in business-oriented themes.
- Collaborate to create a proper ambience for the sector's competitive and sustainable development.
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In what ways? (National ICT Strategy)
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