INNOVAPP is a contest that seeks to promote the entrepreneurial spirit and innovation using technology and celebrating digital entrepreneurship through the solution of social, environmental and educational challenges through the development of applications (APP) in different programming languages.

At the time of the creation of Innovapp in 2014, the public sector of the Dominican Republic did not have a youth-oriented initiative that combined interdisciplinary factors in the creation of technological products that respond to the most pressing problems posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This initiative was created by the Vice Presidency of the Dominican Republic within the framework of the Community Technology Centers. The Community Technology Centers (CTC) are multipurpose physical spaces that provide free access to all people without distinction of gender, age or condition, to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and to educational and cultural training programs in vulnerable areas of the Dominican Republic to help close the existing digital gap.

We are living in the knowledge era and technology has become a powerful tool to promote human development and transform people's lives. Innovapp, as its name suggests, has represented a new solution model to the social, environmental and educational challenges of the Dominican Republic through the development of diverse technological applications.

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