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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the use of technology in all areas, highlighting the importance of digitizing all activities. Digital transformation processes are creating new models of consumption and production that redefine the ways of measuring growth and economic development.
The Digital Transformation Labs model is highly replicable in any region with a high migration of qualified human resources, a process of chronic deindustrialization, and a low level of digitization in the government sector. Its success is based on a three-helix strategy:
- To guarantee the use of all applications, the government must install a Public Digital Infrastructure that allows both rural and urban populations to connect to and access the cloud.
- Through the Public Higher Education Institutions, the Academy provides sufficient human resources to be trained and certified to carry out the government digitization process and host the DTLabs in their facilities.
- Large Technology Companies contribute training and certification in emerging technologies and equip the DTLabs with the most advanced technology in the field of Digital Transformation.
The projects carried out in the DTLabs generate groups of students who have sufficient support to become Creative Technology-Based Companies.
This model can be applied in other Mexican states, such as Chiapas, Oaxaca, or Tabasco, and Latin American countries with similar problems in digital inclusion and technological education.