The General Accounting Office in Costa Rica annulled the contract for prepaid cell phone lines that the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE by its initials in Spanish) had awarded to Ericsson of Costa Rica.

The General Accounting Office heard an appeal from another firm concerned, the Chinese company Huawei Technologies, which questions Ericsson because it offered a discount on the ICE platform that would enable the launch of 2.5 million lines for prepaid cellular and fixed...

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Costa Rica is seeking to apply technology even in trees because we want to put labels with bar codes, such as those on the products in supermarkets, on more than one hundred trees which will be planted in the basins of Moravia, Goicoechea and Tibás in the next five years.

The authorities of the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet by its initials in Spanish), the College of Agricultural Engineers, the Power and Light Company, the High School Laboratorio...

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The Active Citizenship Association and the Association of Graduates and Teachers will give a course of 20 hours on November 1 and 15, with the idea of training teachers for both primary and secondary school in Costa Rica on the tradition of “Boyeo and Carreta,” or ox handling and carts.

This course will be recognized by the Civil Service and will take place in the mini auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica (UCR by its initials in Spanish) from...

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The people of Costa Rica consume more than what the land can produce. This conclusion comes from the 2008 Living Planet Report, prepared by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

The document was drawn up with data provided by the Costa Rican government for organizations such as the United Nations. It calculates the "ecological footprint" of each country.

It measures the demand of the people on the planet in terms of land and sea area required to provide the resources...

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The artist, Carlos Tapia, from Costa Rica is convinced that it is necessary to use a lot of color and many elements in the given space to tell stories about the American continent.

In his most recent exhibition of paintings, called "Maximalism," which is presented in the National Gallery of the Children’s Museum, he uses this idea that more colors and more forms give a better expression of the message.

Tapia said, "The idea that more is more is the best...

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