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July/2010 Methodological Guidelines to support the calculation and analysis of indicators on ICT access and use
June/2010 Public Consultation eLAC2015 - Towards a new Regional Action Plan for the Information Society
June/2010 Integrated access to ICT indicators
May/2010 Video: World Telecommunication Day
May/2010 A government interoperability framework is central to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in developing countries
April/2010 Discussion of ideas: "E-democracy: what challenges for Latin America?"
April/2010 ECLAC expert mission begins in Ecuador technical assistance for the design of a policy to promote the software industry
April/2010 International Seminar: Qualitative Indicators of ICT Integration in Education
April/2010 ECLAC and other international agencies in the review of the "Plan Avanza"
April/2010 Publication of summary and visibility report of the Vth EU-LAC Ministerial Forum on the Information Society
April/2010 The role of the regulator in the new environment of technological convergence
March/2010 Reducing the Digital Gap: the Common Goal of Latin Americans and Europeans
March/2010 Delegations from Latin America and the Caribbean met to agree on priorities for developing the Information Society
March/2010 Latin American and European Officials to Discuss Policies for Digital Inclusion and Opportunities for Cooperation
March/2010 2010 FICA raised the business opportunities offered by ICT convergent services and interactivity in the digital age
February/2010 The Future Digital Agendas of Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean to be Discussed in Spain
December/2009 Newsletter 10: access and infrastructure
December/2009 Preliminary benchmarking of progress towards eLAC2010 goals illustrates that the digital divide has decreased in telephony and Internet access but is growing when it comes to broadband connections
November/2009 Broadband Internet Should Be a Global Public Good, Says ECLAC
November/2009 ECLAC urges expanded access and reduced prices for broadband to bridge the digital divide
November/2009 Latin America Needs Public Policies to Foster Internet Exchange Points
November/2009 OSILAC creates new maps showing ICT access in Latin America
November/2009 Ibero-American meeting highlights the role of innovation and ICT as the way out of the current crisis
November/2009 Information society measurement contributes to the creation of ICT policies
October/2009 Regional Network of Telecentres and Chilean Academy launched
October/2009 The "father of ecological economics," M. S. Swaminathan, to speak at UN-ECLAC about rural and urban digital inclusion
October/2009 Broadband penetration is now eight times higher in developed versus developing countries
October/2009 Progress in elaborating indicators for measuring the information society
October/2009 Newsletter 9: Public management
September/2009 ECLAC to help El Salvador implement e-government and its digital strategy
September/2009 Regional Panel organized by ECLAC recommends integral changes to teaching-learning models
September/2009 UN partners open campaign on digital technologies for poor-country schools
June/2009 Newsletter 8: Production Sector
May/2009 Greater access to and use of information and communications technologies is needed, particularly in the areas of health and education
April/2009 Telecentre Leaders Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean
April/2009 ECLAC highlights importance of Regional Action Plan for the Information Society eLAC2010 in addressing current economic crisis
April/2009 First eLAC2010 follow-up meeting being held in Santiago April 28-29
April/2009 Presentations and results of the Fifth Workshop on Information Society Measurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
April/2009 ECLAC Launches New Regional Statistical Information System on ICTs
March/2009 New Newsletter 7, Policy Instruments and Strategies
March/2009 Three projects launched under the LIS2 Programme
February/2009 First Training Course on Information Society Measurement in the Caribbean en Trinidad and Tobago
January/2009 Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Seminar on ICT and Education
November/2008 Government Officials Sign Regional Innovation Agreement
November/2008 The 2008-2009 CSTD Panel of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development to take place at ECLAC headquarters.
October/2008 Newsletter 6 - Education bulletin
September/2008 Conference for Regional Policy Makers and Advisers, "Incorporating ICTs into the Regional Development Agenda: Using E-Government Systems as the Driver"
September/2008 Launching of the video: " Advances and challenges of information societies in Latin America and the Caribbean", an ECLAC perspective.
July/2008 "The Global Information Society: a Statistical View 2008" was launched
May/2008 ECLAC Participation at Meeting on Dialogue between the Regional Commissions and the Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
April/2008 April - May 2008 Newsletter is now available
March/2008 OSILAC invite you to apply for the following job: Professional in Economic Research on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
February/2008 First workshop on ICT indicators in Education in Latin America.
February/2008 Conclusions of the Fourth Regional Workshop on Information Society Measurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
February/2008 Report on the Fourth workshop on Information Society Measurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
February/2008 Ministers Sign on to Regional Action Plan to strengthen the Information Society
February/2008 News articles released by the press about the new regional agreement reached in El Salvador
February/2008 Presentation of the book "The Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean: Development of Technology and Technologies for Development"
January/2008 Three important meetings to take place in San Salvador this February
January/2008 January-February 2008 Newsletter is now available
January/2008 Results from the eLAC2007 Working Groups
December/2007 GAID, IADB, IDRC-ICA and ECLAC to hold ICT-for-development seminar
November/2007 OSILAC announces the Fourth Regional Workshop on Information Society Measurement in Latin America and the Caribbean that will take place on February 11 and 12, 2008 in San Salvador.
November/2007 OSILAC and the Information Society Programme of ECLAC invite you to apply for the following job: Professional in Economic Research on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
November/2007 The Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Information Society Programme of ECLAC invite you to apply for the following job: Professional for the development of statistics and database management
November/2007 The Internet Governance Forum 2007
November/2007 OSILAC y RICYT published an article about the advances in measuring technological innovation and the Information Society
October/2007 Ministers meet to establish goals on ICT-for-development to bridge the digital divide
October/2007 Announcement of the publication of three documents that provide input for the up-coming Latin American and Caribbean Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, which will take place in San Salvador on 6-8 of February 2008
September/2007 Ministers meet to establish goals on ICT-for-development to bridge the digital divide
September/2007 eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi (version 2.0)
September/2007 Newsletter 3 is available to download
August/2007 A series of important events are organized before the Ministerial Conference about the Information Society, eLAC2007
August/2007 The Information Society Programme invites you to express your interest for the following position: Professional in monitoring policies and projects for the promotion of regional information society development in Latin America and the Caribbean
August/2007 The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development has signed a memorandum of understanding
August/2007 In ECLAC Notes, an article about the Regional Action Plan eLAC2007
July/2007 OSILAC Information System
July/2007 Launching of the 3rd questionnaire about ICT priorities for the year 2010
July/2007 New report: "Pencil, Eraser and Keyboard - Technological Information in Education in Brazil and Latin America"
July/2007 President of El Salvador visited ECLAC
May/2007 The Information Society - From Declaration to Implementation
May/2007 Message by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. World Telecommunication & Information Society Day
May/2007 The Latin American Collaborative Research Federation will work to explore emerging information and communication technologies
May/2007 Cluster of events during the World Information Society Day to accomplish the objectives of the World Summit on the Information Society
April/2007 We continued advancing with eLAC2007
April/2007 III Workshop on Interoperability and Intranet Government
April/2007 Follow-up of the United Nations Millennium Goals and the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
April/2007 Coordinating the development of the eLAC2007 goals in Latin America
April/2007 The Digital Solidarity Found will finance two projects of the region
March/2007 A New Approach to International S&T Cooperation in the EU's 7th Framework Programme
March/2007 Growth, Productivity and Information Technologies Seminar
March/2007 egov Newsletter, a publication dedicated to the diffusion of electronic government in Latin America
March/2007 The Declaration of Turkeyen highlighted the importance of the new information and communication technologies for enhancing the economic and social development
March/2007 The United Nations meets Silicon Valley
March/2007 The Caribbean Telecommunications Union announces the launching of its new web site
March/2007 The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development Report was presented at the 38th session of the UN Statistical Commission with an overwhelming support
February/2007 First seminar of the eLAC2007 Work Group on Software
February/2007 The new platform of the measuring ICT website has been launched
January/2007 The Regional Plan eLAC2007 was presented during the Mexican ICT Agenda Conference
January/2007 First eLAC2007 Software Workgroup Workshop
January/2007 eLAC2007, new form of agreement and regional cooperation
December/2006 UNCTAD Expert Meeting: Using ICTs to achieve growth and development
November/2006 Latin American and Caribbean countries promote digital inclusion with targets for 2007
November/2006 ECLAC and the European Commission adopted a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation on regional economic and social development.
November/2006 ECLAC signs a cooperation agreement with REGULATEL for research and technical attendance in Latin America
November/2006 Capacity building course on the collection of ICT statistics, previous to the Third Regional Workshop on Information Society Measurement.
November/2006 Third Regional Workshop on Information Society Measurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
November/2006 Number 10 of "SPU Flash" magazine is now available
October/2006 The seventh number of the Ltin.tel Magazine is out
October/2006 eLAC2007: for a more participatory and transparent process
October/2006 During Expocompu 2006, CONATEL made the event "Landmarks and Challenges of the Information Society" that counted with the presence of Valeria Jordán, member of OSILAC
October/2006 Launching of the 2nd questionnaire about ICT
October/2006 ECLAC in the Latin American Encounter of the United Nations Millenium Goals and ICT
September/2006 LIS Day celebrates the Information Society cooperation between Europe and Latin America
September/2006 Information Society Symposium in Argentina
September/2006 Martin Hilbert, from ECLAC's Information Society Program, participated in the III International Encounter of Investigators. Knowledge, Innovation and Human development
September/2006 Caribbean ICT Policy Makers Seminar
September/2006 PROTIC, Projects Data Base
September/2006 The First Latin American Congress of Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence counted with the participation of the director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division from ECLAC, Joao Carlos Ferraz who made a presentation.
September/2006 The II National Encounter of Producers and Users of Social, Economic and Territorial Information, counted with the participation of the director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division from ECLAC, Joao Carlos Ferraz.
August/2006 The Regional Follow-up Mechanism eLAC2007 consolidates.
August/2006 The United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) was recently launched at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
August/2006 During the Ninth Workshop of Internet Networks Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean, WALC2006, Juan Carlos Solines presented at the Internet and Society Forum the presentation "The eLAC2007 implementation, perspective of its social impact"
May/2006 The Regional Follow-up Mechanism of eLAC2007 enters a new phase
May/2006 Launching of the first questionnaire on ICT for the year 2010
May/2006 The IV European Union - Latin American and Caribbean Ministerial Forum on the Information Society
April/2006 The National Workshop: " Pursuit Mechanisms for the World-wide Summit on the Information Society and the Regional Plan of Action eLAC2007".
April/2006 ECLAC organizes first coordination meeting for the eLAC2007 work groups
November/2005 Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean take on commitments towards the implementation of eLAC2007
November/2005 NEWSLETTER SOCINFO: Towards the Implementation of eLAC2007
October/2005 Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Summit on Information Society
August/2005 Trinidad and Tobago collaborates with ECLAC in its analysis of National Strategies for the Information Society
July/2005 UN task force calls for more political will to bridge 'digital divide'
July/2005 ECLAC participates in VIII Summit of Regulators and Operators in Asunción, Paraguay
July/2005 ECLAC participates in VIII Summit of Regulators and Operators in Asunción, Paraguay
June/2005 European Commission launches five-year strategy to boost the digital economy

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