Ms Hannia Vega

Commissioner
Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUTEL)
Costa Rica

She is Vice President of the Council of the Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel) in Costa Rica. He has studies in Political Science and a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Costa Rica (UCR).

She has held various public positions, including the first Vice Ministry of Telecommunications of Costa Rica from 2008 to 2012 and the Vice Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy between 2006 and 2008. She has also been a parliamentary advisor from 1994 to 2006 and 2012 to 2017, where he developed the project "Open Parliament".

She has experience as a professor at the UCR in the Schools of Public Administration and Political Sciences (1997-2003), as well as an academic researcher at the Organization of American States (OAS) from 2000 to 2003.

As part of his professional experience, he has achieved:

  • The creation of the first telecommunications rectory
  • The development of the first National Telecommunications Plan of Costa Rica (PNDT) 2009-2014 with a 90% fulfillment of its objectives.
  • The design and implementation of the "Digital Division Index" (IBD), which links the dimensions of access, use, quality, and appropriation of telecommunications.
  • The definition of the National Broadband Strategy.
  • The negotiation of a mutual agreement for the partial termination of concessions for the use of the radioelectric spectrum", which generated the first auction of radioelectric spectrum in the country in 2010.
  • The presidency of the mixed commission for digital television that defined the standard digital television format in Costa Rica.

    In telecommunications, he has also been a national representative of several inter-institutional and international commissions, such as the Council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the International Commission of the Americas, the Central American Telecommunications Commission (Comtelca) and the Agenda Digital for Latin America and the Caribbean (Elac-CEPAL).