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I studied in Chile, and it's a great country. The climate is similar to California, the people are great and the cost of living is pretty low. You'll need to kn

I studied in Chile, and it's a great country. The climate is similar to California, the people are great and the cost of living is pretty low. You'll need to know some Spanish to really get the most out of it, but most of the wealthy speak okay English. On the business side, if you look at Chile's consumer websites (used cars, apartments, etc.) they're all pretty old-school 90's looking. There's definitely room for local and South American innovation. Likewise, local software education is a little old school overall. This means that they need progressive devs and progressive devs can really benefit there. I see this program as trying to use this synergy.

Sukotto 16y ago
Hans Rosling says in "1957 the United States had the same economy as Chile has today ... [in] 2002 the United States has the same health than Chile. Chile's catching up! Within some years Chile may have better child survival than the United States." http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... So it looks like it might be a good place to live and start a business. Lots of opportunity and good healthcare.
dimatura 16y ago
What do you mean by old school?
- igorgue 16y ago
  http://www.contactchile.cl/en/news-chile.php http://www.contactchile.cl/en/news-chile.php :-)
  - dimatura 16y ago
    As in, the look and feel of the page isn't very Web 2.0? I agree, but I don't think it has that much to do with the education itself, at least not the programmer's education. I was thinking something related to the fact that the best universities in Chile don't have CS as a major - the most similar option is studying engineering with a mention in informatics. And though there have been efforts to shorten them, these majors are pretty long for American standards - at my university engineering has been shortened from six years to five.

Sukotto 16y ago

Hans Rosling says in "1957 the United States had the same economy as Chile has today ... [in] 2002 the United States has the same health than Chile. Chile's catching up! Within some years Chile may have better child survival than the United States." http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... So it looks like it might be a good place to live and start a business. Lots of opportunity and good healthcare.

dimatura 16y ago

What do you mean by old school?

igorgue 16y ago
http://www.contactchile.cl/en/news-chile.php http://www.contactchile.cl/en/news-chile.php :-)
- dimatura 16y ago
  As in, the look and feel of the page isn't very Web 2.0? I agree, but I don't think it has that much to do with the education itself, at least not the programmer's education. I was thinking something related to the fact that the best universities in Chile don't have CS as a major - the most similar option is studying engineering with a mention in informatics. And though there have been efforts to shorten them, these majors are pretty long for American standards - at my university engineering has been shortened from six years to five.