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Diego Molano Vega | |
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| Minister of Information Technologies and Communications | |
| In office 7 August 2010 – 11 May 2015 | |
| President | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Daniel Medina |
| Succeeded by | David Luna |
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| Born | 6 October 1967 Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Xavierian University (B.Sc., M.Econ) International Institute for Management Development (MBA) |
| Profession | Electronic Engineer |
Diego Molano Vega (born 6 October 1967) is former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia. He was appointed as minister by President Juan Manuel Santos since 2010.
Molano has led Colombia to become one of the top countries in the region in terms of ICT. In 2010, he created the "Plan Vive Digital", a national technology plan recently portrayed as an example at the World Economic Forum in Davos, plan which also led Colombia to obtain in 2012 the GSMA Government Leadership Award[1] for being the country with the best public policies in technology around the globe.
Through consistent public policy, the "Plan Vive Digital"[2] counts already impressive achievements; for instance, bringing high speed Internet full coverage to all municipalities in Colombia including the poorest and furthest, making the biggest contribution in Colombia's history to the use of technology in educational institutions as a valuable tool for improving the educational processes[citation needed], giving an unprecedented boost to the local software, hardware and services industries and making the greatest historic improvements in digital literacy.[citation needed]
In addition to his activities as Minister, Mr. Molano is a member of several boards, such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) m-Powering Development Initiative, The Global Innovation Index; the world's most important publication of innovation, Barcelona Mobile World Capital (MWC), the Competitiveness Lab of the World Economic Forum World Economic Forum (WEF), and a board member of major international business organizations, such as the American Association of Telecommunications Operators (Ahciet), the Mercosur Business Forum-Europe (MEBF), EU Brazil and the Colombian Chamber of Commerce in Spain
He is also President of other major boards: 4-72; the official postal operator in Colombia, The Public Television Services; includes a total of 9 channels; Colombia's Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOS), Colombian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRC) and The Colombian National Spectrum Agency (ANE) and was founder and president of the Regulators Association of Latin America Telecommunications (Regulatel) [1].
He is a frequent speaker at major international ICT events that includes The Mobile World Congress (MWC), The World Economic Forum (WEF) and The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), among others.
- ^ "Government Leadership Award". Archived from the original on 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
- ^ "Plan Vive Digital official web".