For over two decades, eLAC has been driving regional dialogue and cooperation on digital transformation, establishing itself as a key platform for coordinating efforts and sharing experiences.

ILIA 2025 assesses Artificial Intelligence preparedness, adoption, and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting progress while identifying gaps in talent, investment, and public policies.

At the recent Cetic.br annual meeting, held in São Paulo, experts from around the world shared experiences on the use of emerging data sources for the production of official statistics. ECLAC's Statistics Division contributed its regional expert...

On September 24, 2024, the second edition of the Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index (ILIA) was launched, presenting a comprehensive study on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness in 19 countries in the region.

Modern services —digitally delivered services such as computer, financial and business services— have been the most dynamic category of international trade in the past decade. However, Latin America and the Caribbean is still a marginal player in glo...

The ECLAC Hernán Santa Cruz Library makes the ECLAC Digital Repository readily available to the global community through open access.

We continue the conversation and our webinar series on Open Science in 2023 and invite you to showcase your experiences and initiatives.

In her capacity as President of the Presiding Board of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Minister of Women and Gender Equity of Chile, Mónica Zalaquett, presented the Regional Alliance for the Digitalization of ...

In the context of the ECLAC-BMZ/giz Cooperation Program "Sustainable development paths for middle-income countries in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean", a virtual workshop on em...

In order to identify opportunities and risks that Latin American countries might face as they begin as they move towards increasing the adoption of artificial intelligence

Briefing note by ECLAC Caribbean Chief, Diane Quarless

The initiative, called CE-Digital, is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in its role as technical secretariat of the eLAC process, CAF - Latin America Development Bank and the GSMA.

Briefing note by ECLAC Caribbean Chief, Diane Quarless (September 2015)

International collaboration yields region-specific e-waste roadmap

This was one of the statements made by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at the opening of a workshop on sustainable development and big data that takes place today in Santiago, Chile.