predecessor birth_place president nationality party office profession birth_date term_start image article_title name alma_mater
daniel medina velandia tunja , boyacá , colombia juan manuel santos calderón colombian liberal minister of information technologies and communications colombia 's electronic engineer 06 october 1967 7 august 2010 perfi_diego_molano . jpg diego molano vega
 diego molano vega pontifical institute for management development -lrb- mba -rrb- xavierian university -lrb- b.sc. , m.econ -rrb- international
diego molano vega

diego molano vega -lrb- 6 october 1967 -rrb- is the current 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 -lrb- itu -rrb- m-powering development initiative , the global innovation index ; the world 's most important publication of innovation , barcelona mobile world capital -lrb- mwc -rrb- , the competitiveness lab of the world economic forum world economic forum -lrb- wef -rrb- , and a board member of major international business organizations , such as the american association of telecommunications operators -lrb- ahciet -rrb- , the mercosur business forum-europe -lrb- mebf -rrb- , 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 -lrb- bios -rrb- , colombian telecommunications regulatory commission -lrb- crc -rrb- and the colombian national spectrum agency -lrb- ane -rrb- and was founder and president of the regulators association of latin america telecommunications -lrb- regulatel -rrb- -lsb- http://www.regulatel.org/] .
he is a frequent speaker at major international ict events that includes the mobile world congress -lrb- mwc -rrb- , the world economic forum -lrb- wef -rrb- and the inter-american telecommunication commission -lrb- citel -rrb- , among others .
