Diego Molano Vega
| Diego Molano Vega | |
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| Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Colombia's | |
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Assumed office 7 August 2010 |
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| President | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
| Preceded by | Daniel Medina Velandia |
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6 October 1967 Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Alma mater |
Pontifical Xavierian University (B.Sc., M.Econ) International Institute for Management Development (MBA) |
| Profession | Electronic Engineer |
Diego Molano Vega (6 October 1967) 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 for being the country with the best public policies in technology around the globe.
Through consistent public policy, the "Plan Vive Digital" 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, giving an unprecedented boost to the local software, hardware and services industries and making the greatest historic improvements in digital literacy.
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.
He was born on October 6 of 1967 in Tunja, Boyacá. His parents are the educational Psychologist Mary Vega and the engineer Enrique Molano. He is the eldest of four children and lived in Tunja until is graduated from High School.
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