Diego Molano Vega

Who is Diego Molano Vega?

Diego Molano Vega 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.