Extract from the Second National Congress of Financial Markets held by the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá Colombia.
Bogotá DC, Colombia, November 2018 - Within the framework of the II International Conference on Financial Markets organized by the Research Center in Financial Markets of the Universidad de los Andes and the Faculty of Administration, Sylvia Constaín, ICT minister, announced the The country's main challenges in terms of digital adoption for next year.
According to Constaín, the ICT sector has great growth potential and it is necessary to work on the consolidation of the modernization bill that will close the gaps in connectivity and spectrum allocation. This project will be presented to the Congress of the Republic in the coming weeks.
“The information and communication technology sector is very important to achieve the country's productivity goals. According to figures from the World Bank, Colombia could have a growth of 1.38 percent of GDP, if broadband coverage increases by 10 percentage points, ”he said.
In the same way, the Minister referred to the two main aspects that must be taken into account to leverage the digital transformation and contribute to the country's productivity:
- Change in spectrum allocation: According to Constaín, the country currently allocates spectrum based on a criterion of maximizing financial income for the nation and it is necessary that, instead of concentrating only on collection, the government assumes this aspect as a public policy to close gaps. Connectivity: " Connectivity is the basis for digital transformation and is a fundamental aspect for the development and consolidation of new technologies, for this reason, the bill focuses on connecting all of Colombia and being part of the economic reactivation plan of the government ”, said the minister.
The II International Congress of Financial Markets was a propitious space for the dissemination of ideas and good practices among the public and private sectors and academia. This, taking into account one of the main objectives of the Los Andes School of Administration, which aims to promote initiatives focused on building knowledge in conjunction with other organizations.
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About the Faculty of Administration
The Faculty of Administration of the Universidad de los Andes was created in 1972 with the mission of educating and training leaders capable of creating, analyzing, transforming and developing private, public and social organizations in Colombia, Latin America and the world, through the appropriation and generation of knowledge for the innovative and sustainable development of these organizations.
Excellence and high quality standards have allowed the Faculty to obtain the most important national and international recognitions and develop an offer of training programs in undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and executive education that is characterized by its academic quality, the outstanding preparation of their teachers and recognition of their graduates. In Colombia, her undergraduate and master's degrees in Administration have the highest quality accreditation from the National Accreditation Council (CNA).
At an international level, the Faculty of Administration has continuously obtained and endorsed the European Quality Improvement System –EQUIS– accreditations granted by the European Foundation for Management Development -EFMD- since 2003; AMBA of the Association of MBAs for the MBA program since 2004, and the AACSB for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, since 2010. These three accreditations, known as “the Triple Crown”, are considered the most important and globally recognized, which places the Faculty in the top 1% of the most prestigious business schools in the world. It is the only one in Colombia to obtain this triple distinction and only eight schools in Latin America have achieved this recognition.
About the University of Los Andes
Founded on November 16, 1948 by a group of young people led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, the Universidad de los Andes is the first private higher education institution in Colombia of a secular nature and independent of political parties, oblivious to defending the interests of some social or economic group.
Precisely, these characteristics made Los Andes an avant-garde educational project in a historical moment in the country in which private universities had the influence of partisan conflict in their classrooms. In this historical context, “the birth of Los Andes was not only due to the desire to give life to another university or to an exclusively educational interest, but to the intention of creating a new country.
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