Santo Domingo. Communication professor Ramón Coco described the commissioning of the new Integrated Audiovisual System of the School of Social Communication at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) as a historic event, considering that the project represents the fulfillment of an aspiration that the academy had held for several decades.
During his speech at the inaugural event, Coco stated that the modern complex will directly benefit students, faculty, and administrative staff by offering specialized spaces and equipment to strengthen practical training in television, radio, multimedia production, and digital content creation.
The communicator recalled that, since the beginnings of the School of Social Communication, there was a desire to have adequate facilities for audiovisual teaching, a need that, as he explained, dates back to the 60s and which today is beginning to become a reality thanks to this technological investment.
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Likewise, he valued the effort made by the university authorities to execute the project and adapt it to the new demands of modern communication, marked by the development of multimedia platforms and digital technologies.
Coco expressed that this new center must become the starting point for a broader vision of the university’s communicational development. In that sense, he proposed the creation of a large complex that integrates film, radio, television, and multimedia, accompanied by an institutional communication policy that allows the knowledge generated in the academy to be projected to the entire Dominican society.
The professor maintained that a university of the size and importance of the UASD needs to have its own major media outlets, capable of disseminating the contributions of its researchers, scientists, artists, and professionals from different areas of knowledge.
Finally, he expressed his wish that the new audiovisual complex be the seed for future projects that consolidate the state academy as a national benchmark in the training of communicators and in the production of high-level content.
