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The President of the Republic of Peru Pedro Castillo Terrones announced today that his country will soon approve the National Digital Transformation Policy by 2030 an important instrument that will have as one of its main objectives to provide internet to more than 33 million Peruvians. When inaugurating the VII Ministerial Summit on Digital Transformation for the Americas and the Caribbean which takes place in Lima the Peruvian president pointed out that this approval will also link the digital economy to the reactivation and competitiveness of the country as well as strengthen digital talent and encourage the culture of innovation. When I took office a year and 3 months ago we established digital transformation as a state priority but a transformation with equity that would guarantee inclusive access for the benefit of all our compatriots the head of state recalled to the authorities. digital government of more than 30 countries. In this sense he described the VII Summit as a great meeting that seeks to face one of the greatest challenges of this time putting technology at the service of people building transparent and efficient states and with this promoting progress and development of our peoples. President Castillo highlighted that Peru has exceeded 4 billion visits on the unique digital platform Gob.pe and more than 10 thousand digital orientation services have been implemented which has generated savings of more than 9 billion soles. about two thousand 400 million dollars. He also highlighted that Peru climbed 12 positions in the UN World Digitization Index becoming one of the eleven leading countries in open data and the only American country that is ranked number 1 in that ranking. The inaugural session was attended by the President of the Council of Ministers Anbal Torres Vsquez and members of the ministerial cabinet. Likewise provincial and district mayors from all over Peru and leaders of the Organization of American States OAS the Inter-American Development Bank IDB the United Nations UN the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD the International Telecommunications Union ITU and experts from the Republic of Korea. IDB presents Digital Transformation GuideOn the other hand the Summit inaugurated in the Peruvian capital served for the presentation of the Government Digital Transformation Guide prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank IDB which systematizes knowledge and practice in digital government. The presentation was given by Roberto de Michele head of the Innovation Division to Serve the Citizen of the IDB and Miguel Porra coordinator of the Data and Digital Government Cluster IFDICS IDB who called the document of more than 700 pages although quite friendly the Encyclopedia of Digital Transformation. For his part the general director of the Digital Office of the Madrid City Council Fernando De Pablo keynote speaker at the event stressed that digitization is the main tool for the transformation of administrations but that they do not always take into account what it implies much more than just technology. In this sense he explained that this process requires organizational legislative and mentality changes as well as the achievement of efficiency in procedures and inter-administrative cooperation. Digitalization equalizes rights allows a more efficient use of resources cares for the environment and reinforces transparency she said. Subsequently examples of good practices of digital transformation in Mercosur were presented by Micaela Snchez Malcolm Secretary of Public Innovation of Argentina Leonardo Jos Mattos Sultani Special Secretary of Digital Government of Brazil Hebert Paguas General Director of the Presidency of Uruguay and David Ocampos ICT Vice Minister of Paraguay. The morning session of the Summit was completed by international presentations on technology and public policies for equity cybersecurity as a framework gender and digital government and the digital as an enabler of social and productive reactivation. The summit will continue in the afternoon and will continue tomorrow Friday the 11th where the important testing of the regional scheme for the recognition of digital signatures between States of the region including Peru is planned which allows the technical preparation for the mutual recognition of signatures. across borders.
