The National Science Fair

New Technologies

We know that new technologies are changing our habits in all areas, and also so on so seemingly traditional terrain like the weddings. They remain events more and better organized, but not in the same way as before. Guests lists, invitations, and other usual preparations have passed into the realm of cyberspace, and are today made a mouse, independent of what city are the spouses or guests. Maria Mestraitua, Director of portal, knows first-hand how organized today Basque couples your wedding. Together with other partners, created in the year 2003 the first local portal where Vizcaya couples could organize your wedding, intuiting the great advantages that Internet could offer to those who prepared your link. The project followed the footsteps of the first national and international portals, and throughout his career has come to have registered 25% of couples who married in Vizcaya. At present, its continuous experience in, a new bilingual portal that aims to give a more complete service to couples in the Basque country and is the first of its kind in Basque. He intends to take advantage of the full potential of Internet communication, which materialized in the Web 2.0.

With this premise, has met in this new portal everything you may need a couple to plan your wedding in the 21st century: information and local services, software tools for planning, and above all, applications to interact with their environment, comment, share experiences, and get new ideas. Throughout these years, thousands have been couples who have organized their wedding through the portal and at present more than 600 are registered, trying to close the details of a link that average begins to prepare a year and a half before. The Director of Futurmedia, Maria Mestraitua puts the user profile in specific coordinates: Intuit that they are women in 80% of cases, and that is between 25 and 40 years.