BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News
MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Peña Nieto presented his National Digital Strategy on Monday in Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum, which he said will aim to make government information accessible to citizens and ease communication between different government agencies.
Peña Nieto said that his administration has a commitment to ensuring that information and communication technologies will become a tool to democratize Mexico and ensure the social and economic inclusion of all sectors of the country’s population.
The National Digital Strategy includes the launch of a website — portal.gob.mx — which will become the sole web portal for processing more than 7,000 government procedures, which Peña Nieto said will cut down on red tape and reduce government response times. Mexico’s bureaucracy is considered one of the most complicated and slow-moving in the world. By 2014, he said, vaccination and medical records and birth certificates will all become digitalized and accessible online.
According to Peña Nieto, the National Digital Strategy will also ensure that “more homes and businesses will have broadband Internet access at higher speeds and lower costs … this establishes that the government will guarantee the right to access information and communication technologies, as well as radio broadcasting and telecommunications.”
Peña Nieto also announced plans to democratize productivity and create jobs thrrough the promotion of online commerce and the use of information technology among small- and medium-sized businesses as well as improving public safety by using information technology in violence prevention programs and to spread information during natural disasters.
Alejandra Lagunes Soto Ruiz, who will coordinate the National Digital Strategy, said that the goal is to make Mexico Latin America’s leader on telecommunications, while respecting free online expression, privacy and the protection of personal information.
“We will create a territory where these rights, submitted to the principles of sovereignty and governance, will help the Internet develop its potential as a tool for innovation, development and social transformation,” Soto Ruiz said.
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