Beatriz Alonso

Country:	Cuba
Email:	mary.cuba [at] ties.itu.int

Beatriz Elvira Alonso Becerra is the CEO at Cuban Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL).

Beatriz Alonso Becerra is a graduate of Industrial Engineering(1980). She also attended Graduate degree courses on Specialization in Automated Systems of Management and in Information Technologies, in Cuba and abroad. She has Master of Management Science since 1997.

Beatriz Alonso has been working in the ICT indusctry since 1980. She has been serving as the Director General of Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL). She is also a member of the Council of Management of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba.

Beatriz Alonso has been an active member of Organizing Committees for National and International events associated to Information Technologies. She is a member of national commissions in ICT-related topics, such as the National Editorial Council. Ms Alonso represents Cuba in the Country Code Top Level Domain of Latin America (LACTLD). She participated as a member of the Cuban delegation in the 1st and 2nd phases of the World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunisia in 2005.

She has written and published more than 25 articles and manuals on topics related to Information and Communication Technologies. She leads The Program “Developing the Cuban Science Network”, a digital network of contents, products and services resulting from Science and Technological Innovation.

Career History

• Beatriz Alonso was the Head of the Department of Systems Design at the Center of Automated Systems Design -CEDISAC from 1984 to 1988.

• She served as the Director General of CEDISAC from 1988 at 1999

• She has been as a member of President Ramiro Valdes Group Electronics of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) since 1996

• Since 1999, she has been acting as Director General of Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL).