The Board of Directors of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (Cuti) unanimously resolved that the position of its President, the recently deceased Álvaro Lamé, will be filled by a Collective. The main objective will be to ensure the continuity of the current management, treasuring Lamé's legacy and promoting the ideas that consolidated him as a great reference in the sector.
The Collective that will take forward the management of the Institution is composed of the General Secretary and the Vice-Presidents of the different working commissions of the union. Its members are Juan Manuel Urraburu, Leonardo Loureiro, Aníbal Gonda, Pablo Brenner, Martín Alcalá Rubí, Marianne Oliveira Mattos, Nicolás Fernández and Sylvia González.
The members of Cuti's board of directors highlighted the difficulty of replacing a leader like Lamé, who knew and interpreted the demands and interests of the sector perfectly. "Alvaro carried the torch with energy, dedication, intelligence and an enormous vocation for service. That is the torch that this group will now take up".The general manager Andrea Mendaro affirmed.
During 2016, Cuti's Board of Directors, led by Lamé, held a series of meetings with ministers and education authorities to raise initiatives related to staff training, teleworking, the search for tax incentives for companies in the sector, as well as the promotion of exports, the internationalisation of local companies and the installation of foreign companies on national soil. In addition, together with the Chamber of the Digital Economy of Uruguay (CEDU), a draft law on the collaborative economy was presented.
Several of these projects have received the support of the authorities and will start to be implemented. Others will require a new impetus and follow-up for their realisation. This will be the central task of the Collective, which will work on the basis of the work programme that guided Lamé's management and was approved by the members in the last elections.
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