Four young Cartagena, entrepreneurship program participants Apps.co Cartagena, have developed software for children clearly know their sexuality and thus set limits between his body and that of others in order to prevent abuse and child sexual exploitation.
María Elvira Blanco Romero, Paola Marrugo Nubia Martínez Gómez and Sandra Isaza, are students of psychology Comfenalco Technological university Foundation, the social vocation of each one of them to know the conditions characteristics of human behavior, were taken to identify the majority of psychological disorders begin in the early stages of growth, which led them to work on behalf of children and identify many children suffer sexual abuse by family members or persons external; Following this, they detected the need for learning about sexuality in children, mainly in the city of Cartagena, as being one of the main tourist ports nationwide, has developed as a social problem, the service and the sexual exploitation child.
from all these problems, the three young students of psychology, decide to seek and include a systems engineer for the creation of an interactive software and participate in Round Apps.co in October 2015. Carlos José Barroso is responsible for leading the technical part of the emprendimieto.
in January this year were admitted to the program Discovery Business ICT Ministry Apps.co the Information Technology and Communications – MINTIC, led by Comfenalco Technological university Foundation in the city of Cartagena
“the goal is to validate our software, which is called Power Kids, and then implement it. in all schools in the city so that every child knows to set limits between his body and that of others, and thus know their sexuality holistically. As psychologists, we are aware that many families choose not to talk about these issues because they are considered erroneously as taboo, without knowing the risks they can cause in children who do not know their body, “says Maria Elvira Blanco Romero, thematic expert project .
the vision of these entrepreneurs is the safety of our children through technology, “the goal is to make our city and our country a safer place for children and future generations, we know Power Kids who, besides being an educational software, will also be an essential and integral to the healthy growth of infants tool. “Nubia Marrugo Paola Gomez.
Isabel Cristina Yepes, director of Apps.co Cartagena, He says: “we are confident that digital entrepreneurship is the way to a better future for our children and society in Apps.co 100% support to all those who have the courage to undertake and change the world with their ideas. “
Apps.co ICT network is undertaking an initiative of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications to promote and boost digital entrepreneurship in the country, anyone who has an ICT concept can participate in Apps.co calls.
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