Within the framework of the National Congress of Merchants, Nexos 2022, Fenalco also gave way to the topics of technology and digital transformation with the keynote by Saúl Kattan Cohen, Presidential Advisor for Digital Transformation.
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In his speech, Kattan, pointed out that the Government will seek promote five fundamental axes focused on connectivity, digital transformation, digital appropriation, in which they will focus on creating programs to help older adults, women heads of households, youth and agriculture; and finally they will work on the axis of digital security.
“One of the main objectives of the Government is to transform Colombia, from the digital to be able to close that gap. Although progress has been made, today we have 50% of the country connected, there is still a long way to go. Resources must be invested responsibly to improve this connectivity and ensure that in the coming years we will have 85% of the country connectedKattan said.
Faced with the most urgent commitments required by the telecommunications sector, the Presidential Advisor for Digital Transformation pointed out that the Spectrum auction is one of the pending tasks and that a date for the next auction would be announced in the coming months.
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Finally, Kattan concluded that from the Government of Gustavo Petro have been working to return the image to the Ministry of ICT“as it has been affected in recent years by various scandals.”
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