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<v ->The past five years in Puerto Rico</v>

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have been very eye-opening.

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We noticed that after the last

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massive hurricane that we had, which was Hurricane Maria,

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the importance of staying connected as a community.

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We lost that communication for a couple of months,

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and that was a huge wake up call for us,

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not just the importance of broadband in our everyday lives,

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but broadband just to stay connected as a society,

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as a culture, as Puerto Rico, with the rest of the world.

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And then there's obviously the other portion

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of why broadband is important,

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which is development in health care, education,

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and economic development in general.

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<v ->We started to work with Puerto Rico's broadband program.</v>

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They asked BCG to help in not only thinking

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about how to build the infrastructure

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to create digital connectivity,

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but how to invest behind the workforce

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to build that infrastructure and ensure

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that individuals can really benefit.

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<v ->We have around 1 billion in funding</v>

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for infrastructure programs,

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and when we started this whole initiative,

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we quickly identified that we needed to ensure

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that we impact at least 2,500 jobs in the next five years

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so that the workforce that we are able to help put together

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complements the potential future infrastructure projects

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that we're going to be implementing across the island.

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For us, the key to the success

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that we're experiencing right now

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is a hundred percent collaboration:

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collaboration with government agencies,

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both locally and federally,

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collaboration with community leaders,

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community organizations, universities, colleges, institutes,

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and most importantly, the ISPs.

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<v ->The most incredible thing about working in Puerto Rico</v>

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has been the opportunity to bring together

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a lot of BCG's passion for social impact

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and our capabilities around infrastructure,

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workforce development, education, remote work,

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together with a client team that shares that same passion

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and vision to create a better Puerto Rico for the future.

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<v ->Working with BCG has been probably one of the highlights</v>

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of my career, and their collaboration with us

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has been instrumental to landing the plane.

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I'm proud of the fact that we have huge ambitions

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in the Puerto Rico Broadband Program.

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And the fact that we've been able to land

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some of these initiatives

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like the workforce development program

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is accomplishment in itself.

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I want to be able to leave

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the Puerto Rico Broadband Program

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seeing that the projects and programs that we deployed

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actually impacted our citizens,

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and they are receiving the service

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and they are participating

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in our workforce development programs

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and that we're actually impacting people.

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So the next five years is about hitting those goals

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and seeing that impact and boots on the ground.

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