Daniel Quintero
Daniel Quintero Calle | |
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| Tic's Viciminister of Colombia | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 July 1980 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Citizenship | Colombian |
| Residence | Colombia |
| Alma mater | University of Antioquia and Harvard University |
| Occupation | engineer, politician |
Daniel Quintero Calle, was born on July 26, 1980 in Medellín (Colombia), is a Colombian engineer and activist.
Biography
Daniel Quintero Calle started university at the age of 14, coinciding with the death of his mother, head of the family, exacerbating the family and economic crisis in which his family lived. Two years later, he retired from college and got his first job as messenger and dessert salesman.
Despite the high tuition fees force him to leave his career again.
Since childhood shows, he was interested in the situation of social inequalities in Colombia and its origins, as well as the lack of opportunities, which affected thousands of Colombians. At age 17, he returned to university, this time with a scholarship, and ended his career as an electronics engineer at the University of Antioquia.
Already a graduate, he founded a software development company.
He left Colombia to pursue a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University and a public finance administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, which he would complete with a specialization in finance from the university. Andes.
Political route
In 2013, he founded the Tomato Party, a movement that reached 80,000 followers that was fueled by 90,000 businesses collected. Their working methods were the tomato, the cacerolazos, the cicladas and several pacific representations. The message was environmental, political awareness, education and cultural expressions. This party did not reach the political representation because of the 230 million pesos necessary to be able to answer the case where the threshold fixed at the local elections would not be reached.
In 2014, he aspired to congress for Bogota, by jumping a bridge.[1]
Professional career
He was director of Innpulsa Colombia.[2] [3] After his resignation he was deputy minister of TIC's.[4][5][6]
Death threats
His opposition to the Hidroituango megaproject[7][8] and the sale of Empresas Públicas de Medellín[9] publicly expressed He became one of the voices against the project Isabel Zuleta and his complaints about public security in Medellin while receiving threats.[10]
- ^ "Candidato formaliza su camapaña a la cámara" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Gerente de innpulsa busca ampliar emprendimiento" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Innpulta le apuesta a la innovación". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "De Innpulsa a MinTic". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Daniel Quintero, nuevo viceministro de Tecnologías de la Información". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Daniel Quintero Calle, nuevo viceministro de tic's". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Emergencia de Hidroituango". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Cuál es la magnitud real del desastre". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Aprueban venta de activos de EPM". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Violencia en Medellín". Retrieved 2019-06-15.