Digital Government Excellence

CHAPTER 20Yolanda Martínez: Mexico

 

Yolanda Martínez currently works as International Telecommunications Union (ITU) overall lead for GovStack Initiative, helping governments accelerate the digitalization of government services.

In the public sector, Yolanda led the national digital strategy of Mexico, the digital government unit at the federal level, and the Zapopan digital city program at the local level. She has led several digital transformation initiatives in the private sector while at Deloitte Consulting.

In the international arena, Yolanda led the Office of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Chile, has collaborated with United Nations agencies, and joined OECD as a peer reviewer for the digital government strategies of various Latin American countries.

Yolanda has been recognized by Apolitical as one of the twenty most influential people globally in digital government. She holds a PhD degree in information and knowledge society from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

 

 

 

Yolanda is like a shining sun. If she enters the room, it fills up with energy, with light, with positivism that she just cannot help but radiate. She is always “super active,” as she would say herself, speaking very fast and through a wide smile.

You cannot lead a team that transforms a country of 130 million people, a federation with three levels of government, thousands of entities ...