Ministry for the Information and Communications Technologies (Spanish: Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, abbreviated MinTIC), is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for overseeing the information and communication technologies, telecommunications and broadcasting industries in Colombia.
| Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones | |
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 MinTIC headquarters in Bogotá. | |
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| Formed | 30 July 2009[1] |
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| Headquarters | Edificio Murillo Toro, Carrera 8 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°36′00.22″N 74°04′29.62″W / 4.6000611°N 74.0748944°W" |
| Annual budget | COP$208,306,200,000 (2012)[2] COP$73,084,400,000 (2013)[3] COP$121,377,300,000 (2014)[4] |
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| Website | www |
History
Former Ministry of Telecommunications, adopted its new name by decree 1341 of 2009. [5]
The current Minister is Mauricio Lizcano, appointed by Colombia's president Gustavo Petro
List of ministers of ITC
| Name | Assumed office | Left office | President(s) served under |
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| Martha Pinto de Hart | 7 August 2002 | 19 July 2006 | Álvaro Uribe |
| María del Rosario Guerra | 19 July 2006 | 31 January 2010 | |
| Daniel Medina (acting) | 31 January 2010 | 7 August 2010 | |
| Diego Molano | 7 August 2010 | 11 May 2015 | Juan Manuel Santos |
| David Luna | 15 May 2015 | 25 April 2018 | |
| Juan Sebastián Rozo (acting) | 26 April 2015 | 7 August 2018 | |
| Sylvia Constaín | 7 August 2018 | 4 May 2020 | Iván Duque |
| Karen Abudinen | 4 May 2020 | 9 September 2021 | |
| Iván Mauricio Durán (acting) | 10 September 2021 | 13 October 2021 | |
| Carmen Ligia Valderrama | 13 October 2021 | 7 August 2022 | |
| Sandra Urrutia | 5 September 2022 | 26 April 2023 | Gustavo Petro |
| Mauricio Lizcano | 26 April 2023 | present |