Andicom 2022: President Gustavo Petro speaks at the ICT sector event – News Technology – Technology

During Andicom 2022the largest technology, innovation and digital transformation event in Colombia, the president Gustavo Petro commented on his vision of how connectivity will be one of his Government axes in order to reduce social inequality in the country.

The president pointed out that “broadband is like a virtual land, similar to real land”, in terms of access and social equality, and said that according to the indicators of his Government there is also a profound inequality in access to connectivity, “as there is inequity in access to real land”.

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In this sense, the head of the Colombians revealed that his main objective for the ICT sector is to implement “a true plan of social connectivity with digital literacy, digitization of the State and the economy”, to generate wealth and social equity.

Fiber optics and more fiber optics

Gustavo Petro criticized the connectivity models that have been implemented in the past. “The test of previous governments, of putting the spectrum up for auction, of selling portions and requesting compensation to bring connectivity to unprofitable areas, has not been enough. The result is that we are not in the Latin American average of connectivity”, he pointed out.

“Access to connectivity is not measured in number of cell phones. That is a mirage. We need to bring true connectivity to all regions,” she said.

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He even pointed out that one of the “main reasons for young people to escape from the rural world is that there is no connectivity, that they cannot look out on the world, they are imprisoned without broadband.”

For this reason, he pointed out that its main plan will be to “bring fiber optics and more fiber optics” to all regions: “How do we connect the poorest farmers in the Caribbean, Chocó, the jungles? We need them to be able to really open the windows of the universe and of knowledge and turn this society into a society of knowledge. And a knowledge society is a society in peace”.

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Continuing with his approach, President Gustavo Petro revealed that his Government will design a national plan for the implementation of connectivity through fiber optics.

The State must appear in the deployment of connectivity infrastructure”, he said, pointing out that by bringing fiber optics in tertiary routes “quality connectivity could be brought to practically all regions” of the country, and this will require joint work between public and private resources.

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