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Taller regional virtual abril 2025 “Potencialidades de los censos de población y vivienda: procesamiento de Microdatos con REDATAM y mapeo con QGis”

22 - 29 April 2025 | Course (Workshop - Open for applications)

La información actualizada de la ronda censal 2020 permitirá evaluar cambios demográficos y socioeconómicos recientes con indicadores desglosados por sexo, edades, origen étnico-racial, estatus migratorio, discapacidad, y ubicación geográfica, entre otras variables relevantes. Los talleres brindarán formación práctica en procesamiento, análisis y mapeo de indicadores generados a partir de bases de microdatos censales, utilizando REDATAM y QGIS. REDATAM, desarrollado por el CELADE-División de Población de la CEPAL, facilita el procesamiento y análisis eficiente de estos datos con u…

From Digital Government to Smart Government

9 April - 7 May 2025 | Course (Course - Open for applications)

General objective The general aim of the course is to enhance participants’ capacities in providing solutions to the needs of citizens, organizations, and the challenges of future crises, for example those linked to climate change, through Digital Government. The course also focuses on incorporating new knowledge to advance evidence-based decision making and data-driven policies to create public value and aiming to build a path towards a resilient Smart Government in the Caribbean subregion. Specific objectives To provide participants with an overview of the concepts, elements, conditions, be…

From Digital Government to Smart Government

2 - 30 October 2024 | Course (Course - Open for applications)

I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The significant need for governments in the region to streamline, optimize, make transparent and reduce the costs of public system processes and activities has led to the accelerated and substantial use of Information Technologies (IT). This shift aims to develop increasingly complex applications supported by dedicated architectures, specifically designed to work optimally by integrating systems, utilizing the best management tools, and developing models tailored to government needs. The goal is to create compatible platforms that address issues such as interoperabili…

Introduction to digital trade regulations in Asia and Latin America

16 October - 26 November 2023 | Course (Course - Open for applications)

Course language English and Spanish Registration contact Alejandro Fredes a.fredesparedes@gmail.com This interdisciplinary course is designed for policymakers and researchers who want to develop a critical understanding of global digital trade regulations. The rise of digital trade, which covers trade in digital goods and online services, foreign direct investment in sectors relevant to the digital economy, and data movement, is a new reality that our economies are adjusting to. New digital technologies, such as 3D printing, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Inte…

Online regional workshop: Measurement of SDG indicators and follow-up of the 2030 Development Agenda through the processing of census data with REDATAM and mapping with QGis

10 - 17 May 2022 | Course (Workshop - Open for applications)

The region faces substantive challenges related to data sources to measure real progress in achieving the objectives and goals of the development agendas. In this context, population and housing censuses appears to be a primary source of information and should be considered as essential information for the calculation of the follow up indicators. Censuses are universal, they apply to the whole population within a country, they provide basic information at the dwelling, household and person levels, allowing the socio demographic characterization of the population and its living conditions. Like…

Opportunities and challenges for MSMEs in Caribbean cross-border e-commerce

8 November - 10 December 2021 | Course (Course - Planned)

THE GOAL OF THE COURSE Training policymakers in good practices to improve thecapacities of MSMEs to participate in cross-border e-commerce. SPECIFIC GOALS To learn about recent developments and trends indomestic and cross-border e-commerce particularly sincethe beginning of the pandemic and to examine thebarriers and challenges that MSMEs face in this type ofinternational trade. To understand the process of digital transformation anddigital capacity-building of MSMEs for the effectiveimplementation of cross-border e-commerce processes,systems and tools, along with the support thatgovernments …

Performance indicators for public management

31 May - 28 June 2021 | Course (Course - Open for applications)

General Objective This introductory course seeks to develop and strengthen participants' capacities to formulate performance indicators as an important tool to strengthen public management planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation systems. Learning Goals To introduce students to the concepts of public management and provide a framework for performance indicators. To understand the fundamental components of an indicator for its definition and design. To understand the different types of indicators and their use. To practice formulating different types of performance indicators. COURSE DU…

Online Redatam workshop: Use and processing of census data for the creation of the Agenda 2030 and SDG follow-up indicators

4 - 11 May 2021 | Course (Workshop - Open for applications)

The region faces substantive challenges related to data sources in order to measure real progress in achieving the objectives and goals of the development agendas. In this context, population and housing censuses appears to be a primary source of information and should be considered as essential information for the calculation of the follow up indicators. Census are universal, they apply to the whole population within a country, they provide basic information at the dwelling household and person levels, allowing the socio demographic characterization of the population and its living conditions…

Course: Current challenges of the port system for the countries of the Greater Caribbean

5 - 15 October 2020 | Course (Course - Under way)

The course is given by the Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, Regional Commission of the United Nations). It addresses the main current trends and future prospects of ports with a strategic, regional and global vision of the evolution of the port and maritime industry. The concepts in port management have evolved along with the globalization and evolution of markets, regional and world industry, technological changes, new requirements for sustainability, collaboration and efficiency throughout the chain, making new strategies nec…

Damage and Loss Assessment Methodology and Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction

13 January - 10 February 2020 | Course (Course - Open for applications)

Language: English Target Audience: The course is aimed primarily at key actors in the process of planning, implementing, following up and monitoring Agenda 2030 for the achievement of sustainable development objectives. The course is mainly aimed to government officials from ministries of planning, public works and national emergency offices in charge of the development and implementation of strategies for disaster risk reduction Duration: During this 4-week course, lessons will be enabled for students on a weekly basis. Each lesson has an estimated duration of 10 hours and should be completed…

Streaming/Webex Redatam workshop: Census data analysis and processing for the creation of sociodemographic indicators

8 - 15 April 2019 | Course (Workshop - Open for applications)

Emphasis will be made to the processing and analysis of information from population and housing censuses and household surveys with priority in the generation of indicators in the following areas: education vulnerability, estimation on habitat deficit, specification of target groups (third age, adolescents, indigenous population) and their socio-demographic characteristics, migration and UBN estimation. Address additional questions regarding the content of the workshop to alejandra.silva@cepal.org. …

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