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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 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, ...
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
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(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

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.


Biography

He was born on October 6 of 1967 in
Tunja Tunja () is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2018 it had a population of 172,548 inhabitants. It is the capital of Boyacá department an ...
, 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.


Training

Molano Vega attended th
Colegio Boyacá
de Tunja. After graduation, he moved to Bogotá to pursue a degree in Electronic Engineering and a master's degree in Economics at the
Pontifical Xavierian University The Pontifical Xavierian University (in Spanish Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) is a private higher education institution founded in 1623. It is one of the oldest, most traditional, and prestigious Colombian universities, directed by the Soc ...
. He later attended the
International Institute for Management Development International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is a private business school in Lausanne, Switzerland specializes in executive education offering open enrollment programs for senior executives, as well as longer-term educational engage ...
(IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland graduating with a Master in Business Administration (MBA)


Career

He has held executive positions in multinationals such as
Ascom (company) Ascom Holding AG is a global solutions provider focused on Healthcare ICT and mobile workflow solutions for various industries, retail and security markets worldwide. Ascom provides mission-critical, near-real time communication and collaboration ...
(Switzerland),
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(USA) and
Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadba ...
(Spain), where he was responsible for the operation in areas of corporate relations, regulation and wholesale businesses in more than 20 countries around the world. He began his career in the private sector and in 1996 he was appointed as Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (called today Communications Regulatory Commission
Communications Regulation Commission
where he led the liberation of the communications industry and paved the way for competition and private investment in the industry of telecommunications in the country. Later on he went to manage the areas of corporate relations, wholesale businesses and regulation at multinationals like
BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as ''BELLSOUTH'' and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after ...
(EE.UU.) and
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(Spain). On August 6, 2010 he was appointed as Minister of Information Technologies and Communications by President Juan Manuel Santos. Three months later, President Santos administration formulated the “Plan Vive Digital” which aims at increasing Internet adoption. Its main goals are reducing poverty and creating jobs The “Plan Vive Digital” has already achieved 100% of its goals: Colombia is the first country in Latin America with high-speed Internet in all of its territory thanks to the development of the National Optical Fiber Project and the High-Speed Network that connect all the municipalities; even departments located in the Amazon rainforest. In order to improve the quality of the education, this Government delivered close to 2 million of computers and tablets; more than 7600 internet community access centers have been deployed to connect the farmers, and a network of more than 62000 entrepreneurs who are turning their ideas into ICT-based businesses has been developed. Among other achievements of The “Plan Vive Digital” are bringing Internet to rural and remote areas with more than 100 inhabitants, through over 6.800 Internet community centers called Kioscos Vive Digital. Colombia was also the first country in Latin American with 4G LTE networks, currently counting 6 carriers.


References

* http://www.dinero.com/negocios/articulo/el-boyacense-digital/135171 * http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/santos-nombro-diego-molano-nuevo-ministro-comunicaciones/142674.aspx * http://www.eltiempo.com/revista-credencial/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_NOTA_INTERIOR-9130562.html * http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/bogota/imagen-217572-diego-molano-vega-ministro-de-comunicaciones


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Molano Vega, Diego 1967 births Living people People from Tunja Colombian electrical engineers Ministers of Information Technologies and Communications (Colombia)