Thursday, October 6, 2011

CFK praises Jobs, inaugurates Scientific and Technological Hub

President Cristina Fernández inaugurated on Thursday the new Scientific and Technological Hub at the City neighbourhood of Palermo, on the site previously occupied by the Giol winery company.

During the ceremony the President praised the recently diseased Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, and said she “would have liked to meet him.”

She then remembered the popular speech he gave at Stanford University. “I listened to it this morning,” she added.

Fernandéz then said that technology "helps the economy by increasing profit", and added that education and knowledge had a “central role” in her administration upon giving away computers to local students.

The National Agency for Scientific Promotion will also operate within the new hub.