ICT in Colombia.

Does Colombia live digital?

Colombia has an organization that works to promote the use and appropriation of ICT, it called Colombia Digital. Until now this organization has worked in the education productive and governmental sectors, among other.

• MINICT:

"It drives the great technological leap through the mass use of the Internet to reduce poverty and create jobs. To achieve the Plan promotes the country's digital ecosystem comprised of four major components: Infrastructure, services, applications and users."

• Colombia's Education with ICT:

Ministry of Education has program only for the teachers, this program is ICT-Create: Inspire, Create and Design Learning with ICT:

It is a project helps to the taechers can develop necessary skills and competencies about handling technology. It teachers them to choose and use correctly the ICT's tools for a better teaching. It has also some tools wich help them (in-Class, virtual classes). The objective of them are to change education and the teachers know to do educational classes where they used ICT. When they finish the project, they will have a certification as a Teacher with ICT Skills and they will have a better teaching to their students.

• Teleworking:

"The form of work organizated and consisting of the performance of remunerated activities or services to third parties using as support the information and communications technology - ICT for contact between the worker and the company, without requiring the physical presence of workers in a specific workplace."

•  Agro and ICT

With this project the peasants can implement some electronic tools to their work and they will better and ease their work.
Moreover, ICT helps them to provide information to farmers and rural areas:

-Information Network.
-Agricultural Sector Strategic Communications.
-Information System of Affordable Housing: It gives them subsidies for houses under contruction.
-Sinigan: It is a softwaqre tool to identify cattle and buffaloes.
-Finagro: It is a virtual training about banking and mobile services.
- Agricultural Bank.

• Intelligent Building:

These were create to facilitate everyday situations of people through technology.
In Colombia there are the following Intelligent Building:

• Airport El Dorado.
• Building Bancolombia.
• Building Avianca.

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