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Next Sunday, May 20, Minister Diego Molano will travel to the Guajira to deliver equipment from the program Computers to Educate, meet with the Governor of the department and the Mayor of Riohacha, and present the Plan to the academic community in the region.

ICT Minister, Diego Molano Vega will visit this weekend the city of Riohacha, in order to meet the Mayor's and the Governor´s team in order to see what ICT projects of the administration, by which it seeks to massif the Internet as a tool to reduce poverty and promote development.

Also, on Sunday at 2:30 pm, will be the opening of the High Governance School , which expects the participation of 15 mayors of the Guajira municipalities. During the event, which will also attend the Governor, Juan Francisco Gomez, and Mayor of Riohacha, Rafael Ricardo Ceballos, the ICT Minister will present the Plan Live Digital. In the same way, attendees can listen to the institutional offer of the MINTIC portfolio with which municipalities could benefit.

"The goal we have set ourselves to bring progress, prosperity and employment through ICT will only be possible if we work together. It is therefore important to be aligned with regional leaders and today we are doing so in La Guajira, "said ICT Minister.

During his visit in Riohacha, the ICT Minister will inaugurate on Monday at 10 am three new mobile classrooms equipped with 30 laptops to the Educational Institution, Isabel Maria Cuestas González (Calle 15 N ° 12 - 21), where 1,178 of the most vulnerable youth of the population study, beginning with the strategy of Digital Natives in this region. This inauguration adds to the 3,500 laptops, computer desktops and Video beams that this capital and the municipality of Manaure will receive over the next three years, thanks to the signing of the Digital Natives agreement, which commits resources of the National Government through Computers to Educate and resources of the two municipalities.

At least 38 thousand children from Riohacha, of the Wayuu community and alijunas have received equipment and the goal is for all children in this region to be formed hand in hand with technology. Only in Riohacha over 1,269 computers have been given to 44 educational sites and 1,384 teachers have been trained, who have changed their traditional way of teaching and they have become managers of knowledge through the technology tools they are receiving.