| Ecuador annouces New Open Data Policy to face the COVID-19 crisis - 24/05/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| The objective of the policy is to consolidate the organization and publication processes of the data generated in public institutions to strengthen citizen participation, government transparency, improve the efficiency in public management, promoting research, entrepreneurship and innovation in society. In this way, for example, in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, government entities will have a (...) |
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| MINTEL reinforces the national strategy of Digital Education - 03/05/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| In the framework of the health emergency that the country is going through, the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (MINTEL) reinforces the collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MinEduc), to strengthen the Open Education Strategy. |
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| MINTEL promotes digitization in the health emergency - 30/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| The Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (MINTEL), in its power as governing body of the Simplification of Procedures, according to Executive Decree No. 982, coordinated with the National Directorate of Public Data Registration (Dinardap), the General Directorate Civil Registry, Identification and Cedulation (DIGERIC), and the Internal Revenue Service (SRI), for the digitizat (...) |
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| MINTEL coordinated a public-private effort to create a new technological: the Digital Platform COVID-19. - 12/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| MINTEL coordinates public-private effort to create a new technological: the Digital Platform COVID-19. This instrument will help the capital authorities to control the quarantine so that the isolation is not broken, define epidemiological fences, carry out massive tests of COVID-19 registered in 171 and Salud Ec, monitor agglomerations, fumigations in contagion zones and apply sanctions to those w (...) |
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| MINTEL unvails SaludEc app to the country - 23/03/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| In order to help care for the health of citizens in Ecuador, in the face of possible coronavirus symptoms, the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (Mintel), in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) developed a free digital application (App), called “SaludEc”. It is available for Android and iOS. It is aimed at meeting the following objectives: • Assess the sy (...) |
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| MINTEL asks for guarantees for the non-suspension of the mobile phone and Internet service and ARCOTEL takes action - 22/03/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| The Minister of Telecommunications and the Information Society, Andrés Michelena, through Ministerial Agreement No. 009-2020, dated Sunday, March 22, issued the guidelines on the provision and access to telecommunications services, during the state of national health emergency due to COVID-19. In this context, ARCOTEL will order operators not to suspend the mobile phone and data service, and fixe (...) |
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