Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim's Digital Event Sets World Record Dolia Estevez - Forbes
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The Zocalo was transformed into an Internet and computer technologies fair where nearly 154,000 people were able to use computers and smart phones for free. (Telmex)

The world’s richest person, Carlos Slim Helu, continues to surprise the world in keeping his companies at the forefront of innovation. Telmex,  the Mexican telecom carrier controlled by Slim, entered the Guinness World Records book with its Aldea Digital (Digital Village) as the largest “digital inclusion event” in the world, the company reported on April 8.

From March 15 to 26,  the Zocalo, Mexico City’s most iconic central plaza, was transformed into an Internet and computer technologies fair where nearly 154,000 people were able to use computers and smart phones for free. More than 5,000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 gigabytes per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 30 MB). Mexican television showed long lines of people lined up before the doors opened, waiting to gain access to gigantic tents where the digital fair was set up with the support of Mexico City’s government.  Many were first time computer users.



Fifty four percent of the Aldea Digital’s attendance were men, 46% woman, 12% children and 7% senior citizens. (Telmex)

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