Agenda Uruguay Digital 2025
August 2021
Strategies and Action Plans
The Agenda Uruguay Digital 2025 outlines a comprehensive strategy aimed at advancing Uruguay’s digital development with a focus on inclusivity, resilience, and sustainability. This strategy is organized around five key areas of action, with twelve strategic objectives guiding the initiatives. Here’s a detailed breakdown:
1. Inclusive Digital Society
- Digital Citizenship: The agenda emphasizes equipping all citizens with the necessary digital skills and competencies to participate fully in the digital world. This includes incorporating digital literacy into formal education, particularly in socially and educationally vulnerable areas, and promoting broader citizen engagement in digital spaces.
- Community Integration: The strategy focuses on using digital technologies to bridge gaps in access to knowledge and services, particularly for marginalized communities. This includes initiatives like combined pedagogical approaches in education, digital strategies for the elderly, and improving digital accessibility of public and private services.
2. Boosting Competitiveness and Innovation in Strategic Sectors
- New Employment Strategies: To prepare the workforce for the digital era, the strategy promotes digital vocations, enhances professional training with innovative learning experiences, and aligns educational offerings with the needs of the digital job market.
- Simplified State Interaction: The agenda aims to create a more collaborative and facilitating state by integrating services that simplify interactions between businesses and government, adopting IoT in public service delivery, and optimizing cross-border management for trade and tourism.
- Digital Transformation in Production: This involves modernizing production processes by adopting Industry 4.0 technologies, promoting sustainable economic growth, and advancing in areas like AgTech and financial innovation.
3. Public Sector Efficiency and Transparency
- Data as an Asset: The strategy highlights the importance of optimizing the use of data for decision-making, ensuring ethical and transparent data practices, and integrating administrative records for statistical purposes.
- Public Sector Digital Acceleration: This objective focuses on enhancing digital competencies in public servants, improving internal management through standardized digital solutions, and strengthening legislative management and citizen relations via digital means.
- Public Innovation: The agenda promotes the development of high-value digital solutions and services, improving procurement processes, and fostering GovTech ecosystems to support the digital transformation of government services.
4. Telecommunications Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Cybersecurity
- Universal Quality Connectivity: The agenda aims to ensure high-quality, universal connectivity across Uruguay, reducing geographical inequalities in access. It includes enhancing mobile services, deploying resilient networks, and expanding 5G infrastructure.
- Cybersecurity: Recognizing the growing dependence on digital infrastructure, the strategy prioritizes cybersecurity by adopting a national framework, developing cybersecurity education programs, and enhancing the detection and response to cyber incidents.
5. Legal Framework for Digital Transformation
- Legal Certainty for Digital Transformation: The agenda outlines the need for continuous evolution of the regulatory framework to keep pace with technological advances, ensuring accessibility, data protection, and security in the digital environment. This involves adapting regulations to support the exercise of digital rights, and encouraging adherence to international standards and conventions.
Monitoring and Evaluation
The strategy incorporates a robust monitoring and evaluation system, ensuring that each objective is tracked through specific indicators. Progress is made publicly accessible via a web portal, with semi-annual progress reports. The agenda also includes a gender perspective in its evaluation process to measure its impact on gender inequality, particularly the digital gender gap.