Digital Transformation for Economic and Social Reactivation
The 7th Digital Government Ministerial Meeting of The Americas
The seventh Ministerial Meeting on Digital Government of the Americas, held in parallel with the sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Network of Digital Government (GEALC Network), takes place at a time when the continent is consolidating its joint will to advance towards the highest level of digital transformation for equity and social and productive reactivation.
During the Ninth Summit of the Americas, held within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Los Angeles (USA) from the 8th to the 10th of June this year, the heads of states and governments approved for the first time in the continent’s history a Regional Program for Digital Transformation[1], where they committed to further innovative digital ecosystems, open digital government, cybersecurity and to promote “inclusive, resilient, efficient and equitable economic and social recovery, making use of digital technologies”. This process feeds into later events, the OAS General Assembly as well as this Ministerial Meeting of GEALC Network, both held in Lima (Peru), in October and November, respectively.
Similarly, during the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB reasserted in March 2022 its commitment to digital transformation already described in its document Vision 2025.
In the nineteen years of existence of GEALC Network, through biennial ministerial meetings and annual meetings in which member country authorities commit to setting the course of information and communication technologies with regional public policies, the Network has been a fundamental part of this unwavering effort by multiple actors.
This ministerial meeting is no exception. The agenda is organized around regional priority topics targeting the central points already highlighted and it reflects, as well, a focus on cross-border digital services, consolidating progress in the Americas on cross-border digital signature and interoperability as enablers of regional commitments. Within this framework, the participation of ministers becomes a key driver of political processes of digital transformation agreements at regional level.
Agenda
Plenary
8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. – Opening video
8:35 a.m. – 9:15 a.m – Opening table
• Flavio Mamani, President of Municipalities of Perú (REMURPE)..
• Vianna Maino, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, Ecuador.
• Susana Cordeiro Guerra, Manager of the Institutions for Development Sector, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
• James Lambert, Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs, Organization of American States (OAS).
• Kyu-chul Hwang, Director General at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), Republic of Korea.
• Pedro Castillo Terrones, President of the Republic (Peru).
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Picture of the delegations
9:30 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. – Opening of the virtual voting process for the excelGOV 2022 Awards.
9:35 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Peru’s success digital government stories
• Moderator: Marushka Chocobar, Secretary of Digital Government, PCM.
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Presentation of the Government Digital Transformation Guide
• Roberto de Michele, Chief of the Division of Innovation for Citizen Services, IDB.
• Miguel Porrúa, Coordinator of the Data and Digital Government Cluster, IFD/ICS (IDB).
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break (includes family picture of the delegations).
11:00 – 12:00 – Key aspects of digital transformation in the Americas
• Technology and public policies for Equity. Elsa Estevez, UNESCO Chair in Knowledge Societies and Digital Governance.
• Cybersecurity as a framework. Ana Karina Lucero, Director of Tilo Cibersecurity.
• Gender and digital government. María de Fátima Fonseca, Former Innovation Secretary (Portugal).
• Digital as enabler of social and productive recovery. Hannes Astok, E-Governance Academy (Estonia).
12:00 – 12:30 – Key note speaker
• Fernando De Pablo, General Director of the Digital Office, Madrid City Council, Spain.
• Moderator: Roberto de Michele, Chief of the Division of Innovation for Citizen Services, IDB.
12:30 – 13:05 – Good practices from the Mercosur region countries
• Micaela Sánchez Malcolm, Secretary of Technology Innovation of the Public Sector, Argentina.
• Leonardo José Mattos Sultani, Special Secretary for Debureaucratization, Digital Management and Government, Ministry of Economy, Brazil.
• David Ocampos, Undersecretary, MITIC, Paraguay.
• Hebert Paguas, General Director, Presidency of the Republic, Uruguay.
13:05 – 13:10 – Closing of the virtual voting process for the excelGOV 2022 Awards
13:10 – 14:30 – Lunch
Thematic tracks
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Six simultaneous rooms
• Cybersecurity
○ Juan Ramón Anria, National Director of Cybersecurity, AIG (Panama).
○ Paula Brenes, Director of Digital Governance, MICITT (Costa Rica).
○ Fabián Iñiguez, Undersecretary of Electronic Government, MINTEL (Ecuador).
○ David Moreno, Cybersecurity Program Officer, CICTE/OAS.
○ Santiago Paz, Cybersecurity Specialist, IDB
○ Adrián Marrero, Agesic, Uruguay.
• Open Data.
○ Fernando Perini, IDRC.
○ Fabrizio Scrollini, ILDA.
○ Macbeth Bravo Aponte, Perú.
○ Ninochka Dante, Agesic, Uruguay.
○ Mike Mora, OAS.
○ Arturo Muente, Specialist, IADB.
• Digital Signature and Cross-Border Interoperability.
○ Jimena Hernández, Legal Advisor, AGESIC (Uruguay).
○ Jean Martina, Computer Security Laboratory, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Consultant of GEALC Network).
○ Ruy Ramos, Senior Advisor to the President, ITI (Brazil).
○ Fernando Veliz, Secretary of Government and Digital Transformation (Peru).
• Innovation.
○ Natalia Antezana, Advisor, Coordination of National Digital Strategy (Mexico).
○ Fernando Coelho, Secretary of Electronic Government, Ministry of Economy (Brazil).
○ Viviana Garcia, Coordinator of the Accessibility in Digital Environments Program, AGESIC (Uruguay).
○ Klaus Pistilli, General Director of Electronic Government, MITIC (Paraguay).
○ Ana Carina Rodríguez, Undersecretary of Services and Digital Country (Argentina)
○ Karime Ruibal, Director of Citizenship Services, AGESIC (Uruguay).
○ Siim Sikkut, Digital Advisory Council of the Presidency of the Republic, Estonia.
• Public Software and Transversal Aspects.
○ Lorena Cano, IDB Innovation Specialist.
○ Fabián Iñiguez, Undersecretary of Electronic Government, MINTEL (Ecuador).
○ Yolanda Martínez, International Telecommunication Union, ITU/UN.
○ Florencia Aguirre, Specialist, IDB
○ Darinka Vasquez, Digital Transformation Strategy and Innovation Specialist, UNDP
• Emerging Technologies.
○ Andrea Barenque, Data Intelligence Specialist, Public Digital (UK).
○ Javier Barreiro Consultant, GEALC Network.
○ Nicolás Karavaski, Head of the ICT National Office, ONTI (Argentina).
○ Maximiliano Maneiro, Agesic (Uruguay).
○ Ingrid Montealegre, Digital government Director, MinTIC (Colombia).
Plenary
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.– Opening of second day of sessions.
8:15 – 9:00 – Lessons learned from the digital transformation of South Korea.
- Digital Government Platform: Ryu Kyoungmin, Senior Deputy Director, MOIS.
- Mydata: Wi Jiseong, Deputy Director, MOIS.
- Mobile ID: Kim Seonhui, Deputy Director, MOIS.
9:00 – 10:00 – International agreements and knowledge tools for digital transformation in the Americas.
- Follow-up of Summits. Mike Mora, Department of Effective Public Management, OAS.
- Presentation by IDB. Florencia Aguirre.
- ITU Presentation. Yolanda Martínez, International Telecommunication Union, ITU/UN.
- OECD presentation. Bárbara Ubaldi, Leader of the Digital Government and Data Unit.
- Spanish version of the UN e-government ranking. Vincenzo Aquaro, Head of the Digital Government Unit, UNDESA
10:00 – 10:30 – Pausa para el café
10:30 – 11:00 – Good practices from the Andean Area
- Vladimir Terán Gutiérrez, Executive Director, AGETIC, Bolivia.
- José Inostroza Lara, Head Digital Government Division, Ministry Secretary General of the Presidency, Chile.
- Sergio Octavio Valdés Beltrán, Undersecretary Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, Colombia.
- Fabián Iñiguez, Undersecretary of Electronic Government, Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, Ecuador.
11:00 – 11:30 – Strengthening Cross-border Digital Signature in the region.
11:30 – 12:20 – Good practices from Central America.
- Paula Brenes, Director of Digital Governance, Ministry of Science, Technology and Information Society, Costa Rica.
- Daniel Méndez, Secretary of Innovation, Presidency of the Republic, El Salvador.
- Enrique Cossich Mérida, Coordinator and Executive Director, Presidential Commission of Electronic and Open Government, Guatemala.
- Emiliano Calderón. Coordinator of National Digital Strategy, Mexico.
- Marcio G. Sierra Discua, Minister of Results-Based Management, Honduras.
- Luis Oliva, General Administrator, National Authority for Government Innovation, Panama.
- Pedro Quezada, General Director, OGTIC, Dominican Republic.
12:20 – 13.00 – Good practices from the Caribbean Region.
- Wayde Watson, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bahamas.
- Alexia Peralta, Director E-Governance and Digitalization Unit, Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and E-Governance, Belice.
- Christopher Deen, Chairman, National Data Management Authority, Guyana.
- Kaydian Smith Newton, Principal Director, ICT, Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, Jamaica.
- Albert Jubithana, Minister of Transport, Communication and Tourism, Suriname.
- Wendell Mitchell, National Chief Digital Officer, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Trinidad and Tobago.
- 13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch time
Internal work: Red GEALC Annual Meeting
14:30 – 16:00 – Assembly
- Approval of the 2022 Work Plan Report and the 2013 Work Plan.
- Approval of the Document on List to Trusted Lists of cross-border digital signature.
- Approval of the 2022 Ministerial Declaration
- 2023 Authorities election.
- 2023 Executive Committee group picture.
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 – Closing Panel.
- Aníbal Torres Vásquez, President of the Council of Ministers, Peru.
- Tomás Bermúdez, IDB Representative in Peru.
- Miguel Angel Trinidad, Representative of the OAS General Secretariat in Peru.
- Minister from the new 2023 president country of GEALC Network.
Participants
Previous Ministerial Meetings
Red GEALC Ministerial Meetings are high-level biennial meetings that bring together leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean. They are a suitable environment where joint action among member countries is taken, horizontal cooperation is promoted and the direction and the trend of e-government is discussed. Along these lines, a space is created so that ministers and government experts can share their experiences and knowledge on the subject matter. Distinguished speakers and guests from other continents are also invited. The meeting’s purpose is to raise awareness, strengthen cooperation bonds and discuss jointly about the challenges that arise when developing public policies to modernize the state.
Ministerial gatherings take place once every two years. Digital government meetings for national directors are conducted every year.