Digital Transformation Strategy: The Bicentennial of Costa Rica 2018-2022 Remarks by the President of the Republic organizations, academia and the productive fabric of our nation develop innovative solutions to meet the challenges of a sustainable future. That is why we see disruptive technologies as a toolbox to build a more cohesive society, and to redesign the State as a more efficient and transparent one. Digital transformation is called upon to be a force that will enhance the exercising of rights and responsibilities of citizens. Hence, this Strategy is one of the priorities in our development agenda, and in the daily work of public institutions. Most importantly, it must operate as a concrete experience for the innovation of social dynamics upon which communities, companies, families and individuals build, amongst themselves, the development path and life projects they so choose. Bicentennial Costa Rica is a vision and a construction that leverages the best of our natural, productive, institutional and ethical legacy to integrate us with the advances of knowledge and design a new era of development for our population. Our country is the product of the convergence of knowledge and identities that support the Costa Rican way of living, the pura vida. Understanding and managing the balance between sustainability, growth and equity are our daily drivers. This keeps us open to the world, to new ideas, to new technologies. In other words, it opens us to transformations in favor of the common good. Thinking and delimiting the Bicentennial Costa Rica is a task that cannot be delegated, and neither can the challenges of facing economic growth and unemployment, strengthening the environmental sustainability and resilience to climate change, or driving social equity and inclusion. Hence, the Digital Transformation Strategy: The Bicentennial of Costa Rica 4.0 is called upon to be a turning point in the confluence of human development and technology, of which the final impact depends on all of us. Take this as my most sincere invitation to join us in the execution of this Strategy, and to make our work the greatest evidence of our hope. Therefore, the presentation of the Digital Transformation Strategy: The Bicentennial of Costa Rica 4.0 is an invitation to all institutions and sectors of Costa Rican society to come together in an effort to make the most of the opportunities of Industry 4.0, and take a historic leap to meet our destiny. We have set a goal to position the country as a leader in the use of digital technologies in the Concert of Nations.Techologies have become a keystone of public policies, by means of which social Carlos Alvarado Quesada President of the Republic of Costa Rica 01