The Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC) is celebrating its tenth anniversary, as well as two other institutions with which it has an affinity due to their missions and areas of action: the Ceibal Plan and the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII).
For that reason, this tenth edition of the Digital Transformation Meeting will be special and will feature international speakers of the highest level.
"The event starts on Monday, August 21, with some forums prior to the main activities," José Clastornik, director of Agesic, explained to Montevideo Portal. That morning, leaders of the region in matters related to Information Society and Digital Government (from now on SIGD) will share work experiences. In the afternoon, "there will be a forum with the presence of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI), where we will have the presence of digital government leaders from Mexico, Panama and Peru, among others", an event where "there will also be the presence of Argentina, Chile and Brazil".
The "main courses" of the Meeting will be concentrated in the following two days and especially on Tuesday, a day that will be inaugurated by President Tabaré Vázquez and in which there will be the presence of important international speakers. Among them, Clastornik highlights the presence of Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia.
"Estonia is the European benchmark country in digital government, and it achieved that position during the ten years of its management," he says.
In addition to the conferences, during both days "there will be parallel forums with topics of cybersecurity, access to public information, e-health, etc.. In all of them we will have the presence of highly respected people in the region and the world, who will share their experience and transmit knowledge.
Time to take stock
Director and founder of Agesic, Clastornik has been part of the institution since "before the first day". Therefore, there is hardly anyone more qualified to make a balance of the management of the entity in the past decade and the situation of the country with respect to the areas it deals with.
"If we take stock of what the IMSD issues were in 2005, we can see that Uruguay then had some areas with development, such as the IT industry and software exports, as well as certain aspects of telecommunications". However, there was not a homogeneous and consistent development in all the IMSD issues, which are several," he says.
In terms of where we are today, we are a country in everything related to GISD. That place is not achieved with a specific indicator, but for being consistent, having grown and being a leader in almost all topics", he says, expressing his satisfaction for the fact that Uruguay "appears as a country of reference and there are so many important people who want to join us to celebrate these ten years. It is an expression of the recognition that the country has abroad".
What's to come
For Clastornik, the future of Agesic will be marked by the need to continue to work tirelessly and to keep our eyes more open than ever.
"If ten years ago we saw that there were challenges and a very changing dynamic, today the same thing is happening, but with greater challenges. Things change, paradigms are broken, all at an even greater speed than ten years ago," he says.
Therefore, regarding the future "it is necessary to research and update" permanently, and also "be open to change, to try, to be aware of all the new trends to ride the wave at the right time".
Source: Montevideo Portal
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