Cathie Wooden, founding father of the Ark Make investments funding agency, will give the inaugural lecture for El Salvador’s new City Facilities for Welfare and Alternatives (CUBO) AI program, a public training initiative spearheaded by the federal government of El Salvador.
In line with El Salvador’s Bitcoin Workplace, this system will convey university-level AI programs to college students and professionals and follows the nation’s extremely profitable CUBO Bitcoin (BTC) and Lightning Community developer program.
This system will leverage trade consultants to offer AI training to the general public. El Salvador’s Bitcoin Workplace wrote in a March 23 X publish:
“As El Salvador turbocharges its transformation into the last word tech and monetary powerhouse of the area, CUBO AI will arm college students and professionals within the nation with the instruments to dominate the AI frontier.”
El Salvador continues to draw crypto companies and overseas direct funding because the Central American nation positions itself as a regional tech and digital finance hub.
Cathie Wooden pictured left, with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele within the middle, and economist Artwork Laffer, on the suitable, meet in Could 2024. Supply: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Workplace
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El Salvador changing into a regional tech hub amid training and funding push
El Salvador has taken a number of steps to ascertain itself as a regional hub for innovation, together with integrating Bitcoin lessons into public training, leveraging geothermal power to mine BTC, and passing pro-crypto and AI insurance policies.
Cathie Wooden met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in Could 2024 to debate the way forward for digital belongings and AI coverage within the Central American nation, together with potential training initiatives tailor-made by Ark Make investments.
Wooden left the assembly assured that El Salvador might improve its gross home product (GDP) tenfold over the subsequent 5 years if it continues pursuing its tech-focused agenda.
“The President might scale El Salvador’s GDP 10-fold throughout his subsequent 5-year time period,” Wooden wrote in a Could 2024 X publish and praised Bukele as forward-thinking.
Bukele additionally met with Elon Musk in September 2024 to debate synthetic intelligence and different Twenty first-century applied sciences, together with crypto.
Musk likewise praised Bukele as “an incredible chief,” and the 2 proceed to construct rapport that might probably result in collaboration between the businessman and the federal government of El Salvador.
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