The department of El Valle and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies signed an agreement for more than two billion dollars, in order to implement the project Valle Vive Digital, in the framework of the 'Vive Digital Regional".

The initiative seeks to benefit about 4 million inhabitants from El Valle and ensure they can access and ownership of the opportunities and benefits offered by ICT.

Valle Vive Digital project aims at building and launching of thirty (30) wifi zones and six (6) points of Bluetooth consultation. Includes training in web promotion of travel services for 600 people and aims to certify as a digital citizen to 1,500 people in the department of El Valle. The total value of the agreement is $ 2,182,492,352 Colombian Pesos, from which 'Vive Digital Regional' provided the sum of $ 924,000,000 Colombian Pesos and the department El Valle spent $ 1,258,492,352 Colombian Pesos.

"This alliance is part of the Vive Digital Plan of ICT Ministry, with which we intend to increase and expand the use of Internet in Colombia, from 2.2 million to 8.8 connections throughout the country by 2014. As part of this goal, we signed an agreement for more than two billion Pesos in order to develop the project Valle Vive Digital", said ICT Minister, Diego Molano Vega.

This agreement has as priority to take the technological challenge that will face the department of El Valle, considering that the information technology and communications are a platform to raise the strengths of the region in education, trade, industry, culture and tourism.

This alliance is part of the initiative "Vive Digital Regional ', which seeks to promote access, use and massive appropriation of ICTs, through policies and programs to achieve progressive levels and sustainable development in all the departments of Colombia.

(Source: Mintic-Colombia)