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2013
Annual Report
installers and salespeople from the telecommunications
sector.
It has continued to work with Local Development Agencies
and special mention should be made of its role yet again
this year in the week of the Tolosaldea ICTs which 220
people attended.
Driving the Euskaltel strategy
In order to boost the Euskaltel strategy to foster the
sharing of digital knowledge and support the new digital
industries, while consolidating the positioning in the sphere
of entertainment and leisure, the Euskaltel Foundation has
continued to develop projects in 2014 that have enabled
a technology contribution to cover a leisure aspect, by
encouraging the most amusing and young version of
technologies.
The activities to be highlighted in 2013 are as follows:
Euskal Encounter 21
The 21st Euskal Encounter was held between 25 and 28
July 2013 and it attracted over 7,000 computer and video
game fans.
The Euskal Encounter is the oldest party in Spain and is
among the largest and fastest parties in the world (20 Gb/s).
Its young participants include people from over 15 different
countries and from all the Spanish regions. 45% are from
the Basque Country, 50% from the rest of Spain and 5% from
other countries.
Regarding the Opengune, the Stands, Conferences and
Workshops of the Euskal Encounter open to the general
public, a strategic agreement was reached with Enpresa
The Euskal Encounter is the technology event par excellence and
one of the largest and fastest “parties” in the world.
The Euskaltel purchases from Basque
companies have exceeded 2,369 million
euros.
