From an informal vendor to creating her own cooperative

Interviewed credits:

Adela Cardona – Beneficiary of “entrepreneurs on foot”

Ehyder Barbosa, Director of Development of Solidarity Organizations

Beatriz Garzón, coordinator of the Solidarity Organizations social development group

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Friday, February 11, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). Doña Adela Cárdenas’s life changed unexpectedly after spending several years unemployed. He became bankrupt, but managed to get out of the economic problem in which he found himself after resorting to the “entrepreneurs on foot” program, led by the Vice Presidency of the Republic and the UAEOS, Special Administrative Unit of Solidarity Organizations, according to his own words, he did not have enough money and there he found the opportunity to resurface.

“We were in great need for almost two years, we lost everything we had. We were in Bucaramanga 18 years working. We came to live in a ranch on a lot,” says Doña Adela about the tortuous path she had to go through after leaving the capital of Santander and arriving together with her husband at a wooden house that they managed to get in Cúcuta, the place that Over time, the course of his life changed again.

“We formed a cooperative with 25 women and we began to train ourselves. We were able to learn systems, crafts, textiles and we learned to make food, beauty things and jewelry,” explains Doña Adela.

And it is that according to figures from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), employment for women in 2021 closed at 14.5%, compared to 8.3% for men. She, like many other women, was affected by unemployment and began to turn her finances around as an informal vendor when she found the “walking entrepreneurs” program, which today has managed to reach 291,000 informal vendors throughout the country. that they have had the opportunity to undertake.

“The UAEOS supports this program through associativity, the solidarity economy and the promotion of solidarity economy organizations in eleven capital cities with the highest rates of labor informality,” says Ehyder Barbosa, director of Development of Solidarity Organizations, about this policy that is focused on four axes: Commitment to employment; Commitment to the poorest and most vulnerable in society; Commitment to clean and sustainable growth, commitment to the countryside.

The goal for this 2022 is to solve the economic crisis generated during the pandemic, so that thousands of Colombians achieve their stability and independence.

“God gave us talents, but we have to put them to work, we cannot keep them. If you know how to make hallacas, train yourself to make the best hallacas in the country,” Adela comments on this dish that, with the help of the entrepreneurs on foot program, is today an example at the national level.

The Special Administrative Unit of Solidarity Organizations (UAEOS), attached to the Ministry of Labor, is the State entity in charge of designing, coordinating and executing programs that mainly benefit the most vulnerable communities in the national territory, which find in the various associative forms of solidarity the answer to your needs to improve your quality of life. Like that of Doña Adela, who is part of more than 290 thousand people, owners of small businesses or vulnerable population who derive their income from the informal economy, through the ecosystem of services made up of public and private allies of the national order, who have made use of entrepreneurship support services at the UAEOS, and today they have a small business or microenterprise with which they have been able to get ahead.

In this sense, these formalizations are being carried out in eleven capital cities of the country, and also have the goal of solving the economic crisis generated during the covid-19 pandemic.

For this reason, if you want to move from informal commerce and benefit from this policy, the municipal governments must identify them in the cities, as is the case of Doña Adela, a woman who now has her business and is the example of thousands of people who work in informality.

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Delay in Creating New US Cybersecurity Board Prompts Concern

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA — 

It’s a key part of President Joe Biden’s plans to fight major ransomware attacks and digital espionage campaigns: creating a board of experts that would investigate major incidents to see what went wrong and try to prevent the problems from happening again — much like a transportation safety board does with plane crashes.

But eight months after Biden signed an executive order creating the Cyber Safety Review Board it still hasn’t been set up. That means critical tasks haven’t been completed, including an investigation of the massive SolarWinds espionage campaign first discovered more than a year ago. Russian hackers stole data from several federal agencies and private companies.

Some supporters of the new board say the delay could hurt national security and comes amid growing concerns of a potential conflict with Russia over Ukraine that could involve nation-state cyberattacks. The FBI and other federal agencies recently released an advisory — aimed particularly at critical infrastructure like utilities — on Russian state hackers’ methods and techniques.

“We will never get ahead of these threats if it takes us nearly a year to simply organize a group to investigate major breaches like SolarWinds,” said Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Such a delay is detrimental to our national security and I urge the administration to expedite its process.”

Biden’s order, signed in May, gives the board 90 days to investigate the SolarWinds hack once it’s established. But there’s no timeline for creating the board itself, a job designated to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

In response to questions from The Associated Press, DHS said in a statement it was far along in setting it up and anticipated a “near-term announcement,” but did not address why the process has taken so long.

Scott Shackelford, the cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University and an advocate for creating a cyber review board, said having a rigorous study about what happened in a past hack like SolarWinds is a way of helping prevent similar attacks.

“It sure is taking, my goodness, quite a while to get it going,” Shackelford said. “It’s certainly past time where we could see some positive benefits from having it stood up.”

Ransomware cyberattack illustration. (Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

The Biden administration has made improving cybersecurity a top priority and taken steps to bolster defenses, but this is not the first time lawmakers have been unhappy with the pace of progress. Last year several lawmakers complained it took the administration too long to name a national cyber director, a new position created by Congress.

The SolarWinds hack exploited vulnerabilities in the software supply-chain system and went undetected for most of 2020 despite compromises at a broad swath of federal agencies and dozens of companies, primarily telecommunications and information technology providers. The hacking campaign is named SolarWinds after the U.S. software company whose product was exploited in the first-stage infection of that effort.

The hack highlighted the Russians’ skill at getting to high-level targets. The AP previously reported that SolarWinds hackers had gained access to emails belonging to the then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.

The Biden administration has kept many of the details about the cyberespionage campaign hidden.

The Justice Department, for instance, said in July that 27 U.S. attorney offices around the country had at least one employee’s email account compromised during the hacking campaign. It did not provide details about what kind of information was taken and what impact such a hack may have had on ongoing cases.

The New York-based staff of the DOJ Antitrust Division also had files stolen by the SolarWinds hackers, according to one former senior official briefed on the hack who was not authorized to speak about it publicly and requested anonymity. That breach has not previously been reported. The Antitrust Division investigates private companies and has access to highly sensitive corporate data.

The federal government has undertaken reviews of the SolarWinds hack. The Government Accountability Office issued a report this month on the SolarWinds hack and another major hacking incident that found there was sometimes a slow and difficult process for sharing information between government agencies and the private sector, The National Security Council also conducted a review of the SolarWinds hack last year, according to the GAO report.

But having the new board conduct an independent, thorough examination of the SolarWinds hack could identify inconspicuous security gaps and issues that others may have missed, said Christopher Hart, a former National Transportation Safety Board chairman who has advocated for the creation of a cyber review board.

“Most of the crashes that the NTSB really goes after … are ones that are a surprise even to the security experts,” Hart said. “They weren’t really obvious things, they were things that really took some deep digging to figure out what went wrong.”