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On January 8, 2007, the President of the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, announced the creation of
the Ministry of Popular Power for Telecommunications and Information
Systems.
The Ministry is headed by Mr. Jesse Chacón
Escamillo, who was designated Director General of the National
Telecommunications Commission, one of the institutions attached to the
new ministerial office.
The functions of the Ministry of Popular Power for
Telecommunications and Information Systems include regulating,
formulating, directing, orienting, planning, coordinating, supervising,
and evaluating state policies, strategies, and guidelines on the
promotion and development of the telecommunications, information
technology, and mail service sectors, in coordination with the other
government agencies.
They also include overseeing government policy on
the administration, regulation, planning, and control of the
radioelectric spectrum, orbit and spectrum resources, other limited
telecommunications resources, domain names, and numbering and
addressing, for both the Internet and universal service.
The Ministry is to handle initiatives in the areas
of infrastructure development, telecommunications services,
information technology, mail services, and radioelectric
communications media to further Latin America and Caribbean
integration, participation in international organizations in the areas
of telecommunications, information technology, the information society,
and mail services, in coordination with the competent foreign
relations body, and other tasks it was assigned.
Lic.
María Dolores Peña
Manager International Affairs
CONATEL
E-mail:
mpena@conatel.gov.ve
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Venezuela now has
Ministry for Telecommunications and Information Systems
