The Digital Design Center will foster the virtual environment of comprehensive learning, development of skills, talented work and designs, 2D, 3D visual computer technologies while creating an environment for effective production of crafts.
In November 2021, 20 jewellers from Haiti and the Dominican Republic completed a three-day training course to learn new skills in virtual jewellery design and 3-D modelling.
Caribbean Export Development Agency, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic (MEPyD), the Office of the National Authorizing Officer for European Development Funds in Haiti (BONFED), The National Center for Handicrafts (CENADARTE), The Directorate for the Promotion of Handicrafts of the Vice Ministry of Promotion of MIPYMES of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MIPYMES formally opened the Digital Design Center for Handicrafts (CDDA) located in one of the classrooms of the National Center of Crafts (CENADARTE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Wednesday May 19, 2021.