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Document submitted to the acorn redecom conference 2009, mexico city, september 5, 2009. In a tender process completed in late 2011, colombias ministry of information technologies and communications awarded the national fiber optic project, part of the plan vive digital program, to grupo salinas. Technology in the life of each colombian for the years 20102014 works through the creation of a digital ecosystem that fosters infrastructure, services, applications and users. While some are little more than broad policy strategy documents, others involve signi. Prospective analysis for the vive digital plan of caldas, colombia. Plan vive digital colombia by silvana victoria tamayo on prezi. Internet for 500, 000 disadvantaged colombians pdf colombia. Objetivos y aspiraciones del plan vive digital 325 551 municipos conectados 1. Until the implementation of plan vive digital, many public schools did. What washington can learn from colombias genius plan to lift. The plan aims to increase both the availability of and demand for icts in a parallel way. This plan, to be implemented during the presidential period 201014. An ambitious plan to widely expand the use of the internet in colombia in order to grow the ict sector in colombia, the plan vive digitalthe most ambitious public policy strategy ever implemented by the colombian government for the ict sectorwas established.
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