In Quibdó, Chocó, ICT Minister Carina Murcia led the 2025 Public Accountability Hearing, highlighting a 1.4 trillion peso investment to expand connectivity and digital education in remote regions.
On December 18, 2025, from the Atrato River boardwalk in Quibdó, the Ministry of ICT held its 2025 Public Accountability Hearing. The event, led by Minister Carina Murcia Yela alongside Connectivity Vice Minister Gloria Patricia Perdomo and Digital Transformation Vice Minister Andrés López, featured live testimonials from local beneficiaries.
The minister stated: “We connect with purpose. We brought technology where it had not reached, to educate, entrepreneur and transform. We executed an investment of $1.4 trillion, deployed more than 4,000 kilometers of new fiber optic, something that had not happened since 2017, and trained more than 1.3 million people in digital skills. Our true impact is in the people”.
Resources were allocated across four pillars: connectivity with $599 million, digital education with $307 million, innovation with $465 million, and artificial intelligence with $58 million. In connectivity, the Comprehensive Digital Connectivity Expansion Plan brought internet to 187,696 homes in 28 departments, prioritizing excluded areas. The Juntas de Internet program, promoted by President Gustavo Petro, enables communities to manage their access. José Aldemar Mosquera from Villa Esperanza hamlet said: “Thanks to President Petro for this wonderful project. In our hamlet, technology marked a before and after in education and access to knowledge”.
In digital education, the Ciberpaz program exceeded goals by sensitizing over 1.3 million people in 261 municipalities on safe TIC use. Yelena Bechara, a 13-year-old student from Quibdó, shared: “Since I joined Ciberpaz everything has been much easier for me. I have improved a lot with social media performance... With the internet, studying through videos is much easier for me, I want to be a doctor”.
In innovation, progress was made in AI faculties in Zipaquirá and Usme, and the Colombia 4.0 event toured 11 departments for its 15th anniversary. At the close, Murcia announced Quibdó as a host for Colombia 4.0 in 2026, evolving to Colombia 5.0, to bolster regional technological development.
