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Country cases cluster 2: Costa Rica | Ecuador | Dominican Republic

Cluster 2 focused on fortifying the capacities of selected countries in the region, so they can take advantage of the digital change in a broad and inclusive way. The convergent approach included the areas of industry 4.0 (such as infrastructure, digital technologies, types of companies, business models), social inclusion and gender equality (social protection, education, training and more), as well as industry 4.0 and its impact on labor markets ("work of the future"). In three LAC countries, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Ecuador, the ECLAC-BMZ/giz program supported the integration of options for the inclusive use of digital change in the implementation strategy of the 2030 Agenda or related to it.

Costa Rica
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For an inclusive use of digital change integrated into Costa Rica's 2030 Agenda, the ECLAC-BMZ/giz cooperation program provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT by its acronym in Spanish) in developing the 2018-2027 Action Plan for the implementation of the national policy on gender equality in education, employment and participation in science, technology, telecommunications and innovation products (PICTTI by its acronym in Spanish). In this context, the cooperation program supported the 1) MICITT in holding regional workshops to coordinate the PICTTI; 2) the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in regulating digital platform jobs, technological change and emerging jobs; and 3) the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses in identifying and anticipating the demand for qualifications in the context of digitalization.

Ecuador
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The inclusive use of digital change integrated into the 2030 Agenda implementation strategy was achieved with the Digital Agenda project of Ecuador, developed by ECLAC together with the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society (MINTEL by its acronym in Spanish), as well as several public and private sector institutions. The Digital Agenda has a comprehensive and broad approach that promotes the digitalization of households, the productive system and the State, and is related to the National Development Plan.

Among the public and private institutions that participated in the development of this agenda are the Vice Presidency, the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC by its acronym in Spanish), the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries (MPCEIP by its acronym in Spanish), the Alliance for Vocational Training (FORMADOS), the Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (AEI by its acronym in Spanish), the initiative "Together for Education", the Central University of Ecuador, the SEK International University and the Coastal Polytechnic Institute.

Dominican Republic
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Two options for the inclusive use of digital change were integrated into the 2030 Agenda implementation strategy: the Third National Plan for Gender Equality and Equity (PLANEG III) and the Digital Republic initiative. The process of developing PLANEG III, which was carried out in accordance with the country's national development strategy, is also related to SDG 5 (Gender Equality) of the 2030 Agenda. The second initiative mentioned aims at guaranteeing access to information and communication technologies, reducing the digital gap and providing better services to citizens, and links aspects of digital change to the achievement of the SDG in its axes of Education (SDG 4), Infrastructure (SDG 9), Productivity and Employment (SDG 8 and 9), Open and Transparent Digital Government (SDG 16), Cybersecurity (SDG 16) and Social Inclusion (SDG 5 and 10).

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