Living in Peru : your everyday companion

Living in Peru
Jacqueline Saettone

We are undergoing a radical transformation. For the first time, knowledge, the most important factor of production, is in the workers’ hands. Knowledge allows us to add more value to our exports when we apply it innovatively to the development of new business models in entertainment, tourism, gastronomy, export quality medical services or in developing new technologies, among many other possibilites.

Info provided by the
American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (AmCham Peru)

Info provided and translated by the
American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (AmCham Peru)

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By Guillermo Delgado Aparicio, president of the Technology and Telecommunications Committee, AmCham Peru


Technological convergence refers to the confluence of services – until today independent and provided by different suppliers – in a same telecommunications infrastructure. Even if it may seem unreal it is possible thanks to the spectacular advance of technology that offers consumers each day more comfort to grant communication and connectivity.

It is paradoxical that convergence is spoken of in a world in which technology evolves at a high speed and in which every day companies are born with specialized products in telecommunications. Perhaps the concept of convergence has its origin in the need to use less devices to access more services and content that facilitates our day-to-day lives; for that reason, the increase of the potentialities of devices such as mobile telephones, which nowadays can handle multiple formats under a single connection and with the same provider. What is certain is that convergence is the subject of the moment in telecommunications and has captivated the attention of an important number of countries in the world, including Peru.

In order to give the reader a panorama of what convergence represents, I will use the following diagram, published in the Green Book of European Telecommunications towards the end of the last decade, which permits exploring the origins of the concept.

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Interview with Simon Witts, Worldwide Vice President of the Corporate Segment of Microsoft




With an investment of $7 billion a year during three years, Microsoft launched its new products: Windows Vista, Office System 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. But beyond these new applications, this launching is part of a more ambitious idea called People Ready. Within Microsoft's business strategy to defuse this concept worldwide, Simon Witts, worldwide vice president of the company’s corporate segment, gave an exclusive interview to Contact.