Fundación Chile (FCh) is a non profit corporation created in 1976 through a joint agreement between the Chilean government and
ITT Corporation
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesses ...
. It is essentially a technological
do tank that has worked successfully to foster Chilean business and industry growth through technological innovation and implementation.
Projects
* Fundacion Chile's most notable success has been in the
salmon farming
The aquaculture of salmonids is the fish farming, farming and harvesting of salmonids under controlled conditions for both commercial and recreational purposes. Salmonids (particularly salmon and rainbow trout), along with carp, and tilapia are t ...
industry. FCh is widely credited with turning Chile (a country with no native salmon population) into the world's second largest salmon producer. They have done this through a number of different business ventures.
* FCh has worked with the public Chilean school system to create EducarChile, an internet portal which has become a pillar of the national school system and the 7th most visited site in Chile.
* FCh has worked with the competences of employment of people to create an internet portal which has become the first observatory of labor market movements in Chile. They also have a special program to train people in employment skills with a
constructivist methodology.
External links
Fundación Chile website
References
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Government agencies of Chile
Non-profit organisations based in Chile
Non-profit corporations
Organizations established in 1976
Think tanks established in 1976
1976 establishments in Chile