USD331m for internet subsidies over two years

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (MinTIC) has launched a programme with the Ministry of Housing, Cities and Territory (MVCT) to subsidise internet access for the country’s poorest people. The project will see the government spend COP300 billion (USD165.5 million) per annum over the next two years on purchasing computers and subsidising internet access for families in the lowest two ‘strata’ – Colombia operates a system that gives areas a designation between one and six depending on its level of poverty or wealth, strata one being the poorest areas and strata six the most affluent. Under the scheme 100,000 families that will receive free housing from the government will also receive computers and free internet access.

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OVETEL USD331m for internet subsidies over two years