Nicaragua Launches Broadband Study Center for Central America

Nicaragua has opened a new international study center designed to train engineers from Central America and the Caribbean in broadband technology.
The center, where as many as 12,000 engineers are be trained in the near future, is partly funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as part of its broader plan to bolster Internet services across Latin America.
The IDB and South Korea have lent US$3.2 million to fund the center, which is in the Nicaraguan capital Managua.