Projects

Under the leadership of the Senior Professionals of the group, some of the projects developed in the last years by the HMGroup International include:

-Intelligent Education™ is the system of solutions that would allow the Organization of Ibero-American States to support the educational services and administration of member-countries providing broadband satellite-based connectivity to the global net, facilitating the access to teaching, interconnecting its local offices with headquarters in Madrid and rendering revenue-generating services to third parties. These services can include:

- High-speed continuous connection to internet.
- Broadcasting and reception of videos
- Distance-learning in real time
- Videoconference
- International Telephony via net -known by the acronym "VoIP"
- Other local computer services, include telecenters, community information centers, support systems to other sectors like the public health, etc.

Project of self-sustainable broadband satellite-based connectivity for the Foundation of the Pan-American Health Organization.

Feasibility study for creating and implementing a virtual private network and pilot-plan for a Network Operations Center and Satellite Connectivity hub in Washington, DC and three remote locations in the member-countries linked by broadband satellite based signal, to allow the redistribution of services for a fee, making the system self-sustainable. The study identified the secondary and tertiary markets for the system, financing plans, leasing options, researched the creation of juridical persons to allow the Foundation to develop the negotiating power as well as the reception of external funds, the design and execution of the strategic alliances with the public sector, private and multilateral entities of the United States of America, Europe and Latin America, including Comparative Law researches for the applicable countries, creation of NGOs and local foundations, etc. Recommendations made on similar projects -listed in this study, were adapted and to this proposal, in order to increase the synergy and efficiency of this specific plan.

The Pan-American Health Organization, which created the Foundation, expressed interest in this kind of initiative that would reduce by 8O% their telecommunications cost and still allow them to supply technical assistance to the public health sector and other sanitary concerns of the Americas, for what would be in principle the first natural client of the Foundation or of any other organism that could offer it. The new Director General of PAHO, began her period in February of 2003, and the project will be submitted for her consideration in due time.

"Computerless: a way of life for Rural Children" was a program of the AgriFuture Foundation -which belongs to the Inter-American Institute of Cooperation for Agriculture, to provide a computer connected to Internet through satellite-based broadband and fed by solar energy to each rural school of Latin America and the Caribbean. Tasks completed: design of the program, research, and execution plan and market analysis. The project is ready for submission to possible financing sources and donors, in 2004.

Virtual Private Network of IICA The Inter-American Institute of Cooperation for Agriculture: Investigation and development of the program, paradigm of the available public-private strategic alliances to an international organism with 34 offices in the American continent and one in Spain. Tasks completed: design of the concept, research and development of alternatives, cost-benefit study, planning of strategic alliances with the private sector and the governments potentially interested in heading the list of remote locations, creation of operative outlines for generation of revenues, design of the economic pattern for self-sustainability of the project, analysis of legal local and international laws, treaties and concurrent legislation, research on national and international juridical persons, structuring and alliances with local ONGs and design of a pilot program for headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, the office of the IICA in Washington DC, USA, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The project was approved by the administration of Dr. Carlos Aquino González in his last trimester as the head of the organization, with the recommendation of being implemented by the current directorate. While internal restructuring of the Organization and consolidation of operations would make IICA the ideal client for the system, new perspectives may not necessarily allow it to become the leading organization of the project at this specific time.

Plan "Digital Rural Panama", with support from and commissioned by the Ministry of Agricultural Development, it was designed and it executed through an strategic alliance IICA-AgriFuture Foundation, the Ministry and OnSat Networks USA to develop and operate an interconnected system of Technical Assistance and Distance Education in 150 rural populations of Panama for Internet, interconnected by broadband satellite-based signal fed by solar energy.

Other clients, and projects include:

- Centro Argentino de Ingenieros, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
- Presentations to the Secretary of Agriculture the Argentine Republic, the Program of the United Nations for the Development and the NGO Ejercicio Ciudadano
- Strategic Planning for several organizations in relation to the political and economic situation of certain countries members.