Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2025 Nominee

Llegamos con TIC


Description

"""Llegamos con TIC"" is the program for the appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies that encourages and promotes the development of digital skills and competencies in the people of the Colombian territory, especially those who are in rural areas.
With the use and appropriation of the internet promoted through the initiative Llegamos con TIC, tools are provided so that the inhabitants of the Colombian territory can use technologies meaningfully; that is, positively transforming their lives.
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Project website

https://www.llegamoscontic.gov.co/portal/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4. Capacity building 2025
  • AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Coverage
  • Colombia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

01 May 2021

End date

01 December 2026


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

"This project is replicable in other countries with the following strategies: promoting Internet consumption as a mobilizing and transforming element in people's lives, mobilizing each one of the beneficiaries of the initiative around connectivity, understood as the opportunity to access the internet and improve their quality of life and that of their family and providing an offer of educational, social, cultural and economic content among others, regarding the use and consumption of the Internet as a way to promote the development of digital skills and abilities.
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Sustainability

"This project allow citizens in general to train in digital skills and abilities, making available a platform through which the population can access on an offer of ten (10) free courses in virtual mode, asynchronous, certifiable and accessible through the platform www.llegamoscontic.gov.co. These courses foster skills and competencies associated with: Digital Literacy, Digital Commerce, Digital Communication, Digital Culture, Digital Government, Digital Wellbeing, Telecommuting, Digital Access and Digital Education."


WSIS values promotion

"With Llegamos con TIC, Ministry seeks to promote among others, values such as equality, since it given that it seeks to train citizens in digital skills, which allows closing the digital divide and generating the effective use and appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies. This allows people to access better education, better working conditions and a better quality of life."


Entity name

Ministerio de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones

Entity country—type

Colombia Government

Entity website

https://www.mintic.gov.co/portal/inicio/