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On 19 January in Mali, the sixty-eight computers donated by Isdefe were distributed among the African Mission of the White Fathers in Kati, the Franciscan Sisters in Koulikoro and the Sisters of the Guardian Angel in Bamako. 

These laptops, donated through the Civil-Military Unit of the Operations Command of the Defence Staff (EMAD), will be used to equip classrooms in the three towns mentioned above with computer resources. In Mali, students do not receive training in computer science, and so outfitting these classrooms with computer equipment will improve their education

On Tuesday, 27 December , a Spanish Air Force cargo plane left for Mali with 68 laptop computers aboard donated by Isdefe.

The Operations Command took advantage of the visit by the Minister of Defence, María Dolores de Cospedal, to the international missions of the Armed Forces stationed in Senegal and Mali to transport in the aircraft’s hold the laptops donated by Isdefe through the Operations Command. 

After an international bidding process, the NATO agency responsible for implementing, maintaining and supporting the NCIA’s (NATO Communications and Information Agency) information and communications systems has once again selected IBM Netherlands and Isdefe to help manage its communications programmes through the PMIC (Programme Management and Integration Capability) Project.

The 10th STIC CCN-CERT Workshop was held on 13 and 14 November at Kinépolis, Ciudad de la Imagen, to celebrate “Ten years enhancing national cybersecurity”. 

The first edition of the ICT Security Workshop took place in November 2007, one year after the National Centre for Cryptology (CCN) created the Emergency Response Team (CCN-CERT). One decade later, cyberspace security and the protection of information are an area of priority for governments, corporations and society at large. 

  On 12 December at 7:30 pm, the 2016 “Virgen del Carmen” Navy Awards was be presented at an event hold in the Navy headquarters building. The purpose of these awards, which were created 77 years ago, in 1939, is to disseminate naval culture.

This event brought together officials, institutions and professionals in the industry and was featured by the Minister of Defence and the Navy Chief of Staff.

The “Virgen del Carmen” awards are intended to encourage an interest in and fondness of the sea and naval affairs, and to disseminate naval culture