The first ICT Forum in Dominican Republic, opened by Diputado Pelegrin Castillo, Member of the Congress of Dominican Republic, focused on how Information and Communication Technologies enable business start-up and development was held November 21-24, 2007. Organized by Innov-E a new business accelerator in Santo Domingo that was opened officially with this event the workshop found much interest in the media. Newspapers reported extensively and the local Business TV channel broadcasted information about this conference that was moderated by Mayra Holguin, owner of this TV station.
Supported by SPICE Group Rosendo Alvarez III, CEO of Innov-E, organized in combination with a European business meeting this first international workshop on ICT enabled entrepreneurship and environmental technologies with speakers from Dominican Republic as well as other Latin American countries as well as from Europe and the USA. Sten Tamkivi, SKYPE, provided insight in the start up and development of this global player in telecommunication. He stressed the importance of global collaboration within any company that targets at international markets. For SKYPE with now 250 million registered users this is daily practice from day one. Having been established by an international group of people the company developed quickly with headquarters and offices in different countries and in all offices many different nationalities working together for developing the business. Barbara Harley (USA), Janis Stabulnieks (Latvia), and Heinz Fiedler (Germany) presented their experiences at the event and contributed to the intensive discussions with representatives of the DR Parliament and government agencies.
At this meeting also a new Art Ball project was started: The "Innovation Art Ball Dominican Republic".

The following pictures give an impression how the SPICE Art Ball 2006 continued to develop:

	L. Brovarska + Dimity XXXX The Ball is swimming
	Aldo Aspilcueta + Dmitry XXXX + Joerg Aldinger B. Harley

	Janis Stabulnieks +
The Ball is swimming...	SPICE Art Ball presentation