Agenda: areas, objectives, and goals. (II) Boost to competitiveness and innovation in strategic sectors
The digital development is essential to improve the productivity and competitiveness of the country, and an opportunity to generate positive impacts on the economic development. It is necessary to foster the innovation and integration of all parties involved, so as to provide the necessary conditions for the development of new business models and better job opportunities.
Objective III: New strategies for employment. To give way to working conditions that adapt to the digital era, fostering digital vocations and generating competencies in the working force that allow to increase the productivity and meet the new employment demands.
14. To transform the scope, quality and pertinence of career development and training through innovative learning experiences which integrate digitalisation, for the improvement of the employability of the economically active population.
15. To expand the educational offer in technological careers, creating certifications in public and private institutions, accelerating the homologation system, coordinating the teaching training in the labour, technical, professional, and human sectors.
16. To create skills for the new employment demands, studying the job markets of the diverse departments in Uruguay in advance.
Responsible institutions:
National Public Education Administration
Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies
National Institute of Employment and Professional Development
Ministry of Labour and Social Security
Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining
Sembrando Program
Universities
Objective IV: Simple interaction with the State. To have a State that is collaborative and facilitates the economic development, with integrated services that simplify the interaction of companies with public institutions.
17. To respond to the needs of strategic sectors transforming services with a comprehensive view of the State, targeted at workers, entrepreneurs, migrants, small companies, and investors, among others.
18. To manage the borders in a coordinated manner through the integration of the State information systems and to enable electronic affidavits, streamlining the costs and times of foreign trade, tourism, and customs activities.
19. To incorporate Internet of things in the provision and management of public services such as energy, water, communications, and transport, with the installation of meters and sensors to improve the comfort of the clients and the competitiveness for the productive sector.
Responsible institutions:
National Telecommunications Administration
National Administration of Power Stations and Electric Transmissions
Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society
Social Welfare Bank
Ministry of Economy and Finance
One-stop-shop for Trade
Objective V: Digital transformation in productive sectors. To modernise the productive processes, through the incorporation of technology throughout the whole value chain, and to drive innovative solutions, to contribute to the economic and sustainable development.
20. To promote the digital transformation towards a 4.0 industry, intensifying the adoption of IoT-based processes and automation in the strategic productive sectors, with the aim of promoting competitiveness. Furthermore, to drive circular economy, the efficiency in the use of resources and minimise the generation of waste in the productive process.
21. To contribute with the decarbonisation of the country developing digital platforms that facilitate the access to services related to electric mobility, other uses, and electric services, as well as to promote energy efficiency.
22. To develop the adoption of AgriTech solutions to move towards the publication of open data of the agriculture and fisheries sector, and to promote the empowerment of an entrepreneur community that may offer solutions to problems faced by the actors in the sector.
23. To move towards financial innovation management models, with the due regulatory framework, equal conditions and high technical and security standards that constitute the basis for the development of the sector and of new products.
24. To consolidate a national bank of climate and meteorological data, through the installation of a weather radar, the extension of the automatic weather stations and telepluviometer networks, providing systematised quality data.
25. To expedite traffic, improve road safety and reduce operating costs, through the complete automation of the tolls located in the national road network and the placement of radars in strategic junctions and populated areas.
26. To support digital transformation and skill generation processes in SMEs as promoter of sustainability and competitiveness, which enable the employment reconversion, market and product diversification, international insertion, and the reduction of territorial and social gaps.
Responsible institutions:
National Administration of Power Stations and Electric Transmissions
Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society
National Research and Innovation Agency
Central Bank of Uruguay
Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies
Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries
Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining
Ministry of Transport and Public Works
Universities