Lanzarote has just opened a digital nerve center for companies, entrepreneurs and technological and digital projects. The digital coworking space of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa is a key initiative to promote the digital transformation of the island's business sector.
This project has been possible thanks to an investment of 519,000 euros, financed by the ERDF Fund through the Incyde Foundation and the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
The new space is located on the second floor of the Business Innovation building of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and aims to become a collaborative space of reference for the generation and proposal of technological and intelligent projects. An ideas laboratory equipped with specialized tools, work areas, networking areas, meeting spaces and high connectivity.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce, José Valle, accompanied by the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, and the general director of the Incyde Foundation, Javier Collado, inaugurated the facilities this morning, accompanied by a cast of personalities from the business, political and economic world of the Canary Islands.
Before the media, Valle acknowledged that "this investment will significantly boost our talent, with tools and ideas for the creation of new business projects. Products and services that will modernize tourism with more technology to be more efficient, more sustainable and offer an alternative and modernized tourism proposal."
For his part, Betancort congratulated the Chamber of Commerce and the Incyde Foundation "for accelerating the projects that so many professionals, as well as technology-based SMEs and startups, want to promote." "Thanks also to the financial support of the Cabildo, from now on they will be able to count on these facilities for the development of their activity in an innovative environment that we hope will improve the competitiveness of the business fabric of Lanzarote and La Graciosa," he added.
Javier Collado, director of the Incyde Foundation, an entity that promotes the creation of this type of digital transformation spaces throughout the state through the Chambers of Commerce, which already number 28, assured that "more than 3,052 companies and entrepreneurs have passed through our infrastructures and, through them, we have managed to impact more than 113,973 people. Our commitment to innovation, economic growth and job creation is firm," he said.
What does this space offer?
The Lanzarote digital coworking space has 12 workstations, with a connection hub for any operating system, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and digital tools to facilitate high connectivity and creativity.
It is proposed as an ideas laboratory in a learning and collaboration environment for entrepreneurs, startups, digital nomads and visionary local entrepreneurs who seek inspiration and cutting-edge design to design new scenarios in a challenging ecosystem.
One of its most distinctive values is a studio for podcast recordings and streaming broadcasts, for content creators, a service that is in high demand among gamers and influencers.
The space will generate workshops, demonstration days, presentations and national and international connections open to all economic sectors. It also has Virtual Reality glasses, a 3D Printer, certified monitors for professional design, equipment for rendering and a secure and stable fiber and wifi internet connection with guaranteed bandwidth.
The Lanzarote digital coworking represents a qualitative leap for digital entrepreneurship on the island, thanks to the financing of 85% of the ERDF Fund, through the Incyde Foundation, within the Pluriregional Operational Program 2014-2020 - axis 3: Improve the Competitiveness of SMEs, and the co-financing of the Cabildo de Lanzarote.