ECLAC at First Caribbean Technology and Innovation for Digital Economy (TIDE) Conference

Two staff members from the Statistics and Social Development Unit, Mr Abdullahi Abdulkadri and Mr Francis Jones will deliver presentations on global open data trends and micro-data mining software respectively.

Staff of the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre (CKMC) has set up a book display, and will distribute ECLAC publications and information resources to conference participants.  Key publications on display, which are also available from the ECLAC Digital Repository, include the following:

• Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
• Development strategies for the information and communications technology sector in the Caribbean: A global perspective
• Information and communication technologies for disaster risk management in the Caribbean
• Broadband in Latin America: Beyond Connectivity
• Caribbean development report: Exploring strategies for sustainable growth and development in Caribbean small island States
• Regional integration in the Caribbean: The role of trade agreements and structural transformation

In addition to these items, here are some links to key online resources, which are available on ECLAC’s Caribbean Development Portal:

• Economic Development
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Information Society

Come and visit the ECLAC booth at the Caribbean TIDE conference, which is being hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Economy and the World Bank Group.