Ricardo's Blog

The Digital Leaders Latin American Forum on ICT competitiveness was kicked off by key Government officials in Cartagena, Colombia today.  The Forum, known for short as DLF gathers leaders from all sectors of the economy in the Americas.  A hundred Government Officials, Company Executives, Multilateral Organizations and NGOs from 19 countries in the Americas will discuss how to effectively promote Government policy to foster Digital Inclusion and increase competitiveness to the Latin American Region.

The Digital Leaders Forum is an initiative by Intel, which is being joined by Latin American Governments and muiltinational organizations such as the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations and World Bank.

The forum proceedings were formally opened this morning by Kevin Casas, Vice President of Costa Rica; Dra. Maria Guerra, Minister of Communications of Colombia; Dra. Cecilia Maria Velez, Minister of Education of Colombia and Dr. Luis Guillermo Echeverri, Executive Director of IDB.

Here are some pictures of the Opening Ceremony (pass the mouse over the picture for the name of the speaker).

And to close, I'd like to recall Kevin Casas' closing comments. He talked about how Cartagena played a key role on the times of the Spanish colony. Cartagena was one of the key ports to ship gold and silver to Spain.  He said that today the ideas out of DLF will change the world in a far more dramatic way that gold and silver did in past. And we cannot agree more with Kevin.

Stories coming soon:

- Craig Barrett's keynote speech

- The youngest Digital leader at the Digital Leaders Forum