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Mexico sets Guinness record for "largest digital inclusion event"

Xinhua, July 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

More than 279,000 visitors attended a computing and telecommunications event in Mexico City, setting a new Guinness World Record for "the largest digital inclusion event," local media reported Monday.

This year's Aldea Digital, or Digital Village, drew 279,107 people in 15 days, breaking last year's record of 258,896 visitors, according to the daily El Universal.

Citing event sponsor Telmex, Mexico's telecom giant, the daily said Digital Village broke two other related records.

It set the record for the largest number of people participating in a technology course, Train for Employment, by drawing 2,409 people in just eight hours, and also set the record for the largest number of selfies taken through augmented reality technology with 4,778 images taken in four hours.

The 2015 edition of Digital Village has fulfilled the objective "of including an increasing number of Mexicans in communication and information technologies," Telmex said.

People of all ages, mostly students, attended the event set up in the capital's large central plaza to receive introductory training in app development, programming, 3D animation, robotics and more through hundreds of computer terminals offering connectivity of 100 gigabytes per second. Endi