El futuro de la democracia en la era digital

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Intergenerational relations: creating a world for all ages so that no one is left behind

This paper, prepared jointly by the five regional commissions of the United Nations, explores the social and economic challenges and opportunities of demographic shifts towards multigenerational societies across the countries covered by the five regional commissions. It discusses the latest evidence on demographic trends and intergenerational relations, labour markets, social protection, care, living arrangements and digitalization across regions, and it provides recommendations to build societies for all ages. With a strong interdisciplinary and interregional focus, the paper addresses interg…

Autoridades instan a generar mayor conciencia sobre los riesgos y oportunidades del acceso de niños, niñas y adolescentes al mundo digital

El evento “Niños y niñas en línea, datos de la última ronda de los Estudios Kids Online en Brasil, Costa Rica, Chile y Uruguay” se realizó en paralelo a la Reunión Ministerial de Educación, que se celebró en Santiago, Chile.…

Conferencia Magistral de Daniel Innerarity - 75 aniversario de la CEPAL

El destacado filósofo y ensayista español Daniel Innerarity fue el octavo expositor en participar en el Ciclo de Conferencias Magistrales organizado para conmemorar el 75° aniversario del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas. Más información: https://bit.ly/3HrnPf8…

Artificial Intelligence for Caribbean Sustainable Development

Toward AI Policies for the Caribbean

Artificial Intelligence offers extraordinary opportunities for accelerating human progress across a range of fields from healthcare and education, to combating climate change and disasters. However, if left unregulated, AI could exacerbate inequalities, undermine human rights and threaten peace.…

Director’s Desk: Artificial Intelligence for Caribbean sustainable development

2023 saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools becoming widely available to the general public, leading to the generation of new works of art, songs, text, and computer code. This explosion in new outputs has led to much excitement around AI’s potential, but also brought to the forefront concerns about countries and communities being left behind, and the technology’s potential to harm individuals and societies. This issue of FOCUS magazine discusses the potential impact of AI on the Caribbean, and avenues to develop tailored AI policies, governance systems, and to engage with AI issues at the int…

“It’s messy, but we have to do it now” – Craig Ramlal, UN advisor, on AI regulation

Few technological advances created more global buzz in 2023 than artificial intelligence: One tool captured global attention by generating text in different formats based on simple prompts; another created new covers of recent songs by singers who passed away decades ago; and others created full works of art in distinct styles based on user descriptions.…

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 10

RateMyProfessors y Google Académico: evaluaciones de los alumnos, apariencia y la investigación

Resumen del artículo publicado en Revista CEPAL N° 140, agosto de 2023. Autores: Rómulo A. Chumacero, Ricardo D. Paredes y Tomás Reyes.…

When RateMyProfessors met Google Scholar: students’ evaluations and professors’ looks and research

We take more than a million student evaluations of almost 200,000 professors from the RateMyProfessors website and link them with information on the research productivity of almost 3,000 professors in Google Scholar to provide a systematic characterization of the relationship between student evaluations and the characteristics of the classes, universities and professors concerned and to test whether students’ appreciations are conditionally related to research productivity. The study concludes that although how “easy” and “interesting” students consider a course to be are the most important de…

Cuando RateMyProfessors se encuentra con Google Académico: evaluaciones de los alumnos, apariencia y la investigación

Vinculamos más de un millón de evaluaciones de casi 200.000 profesores hechas por alumnos en el sitio web RateMyProfessors con información sobre la productividad de la investigación de casi 3.000 profesores en Google Académico (Google Scholar) a fin de ofrecer una caracterización sistemática de la relación entre las evaluaciones de los alumnos y las características de las clases, las universidades y los profesores, para comprobar si las evaluaciones de los alumnos tienen una relación condicionada con la productividad de la investigación. El estudio concluye que, si bien lo “fácil” e “interesan…

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The Role of Data for SDG Advancement in the Caribbean

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Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Caribbean Outlook 3: Economic recovery and repositioning in the era of COVID-19. Policy Brief

The economies of the subregion were hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those dependent on tourism. As a result, the Caribbean has seen a reversal of the hard-won gains achieved in growing their economies and reducing unemployment and inequality. The inflation stemming from pandemic supply chain disruption, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, has made the sustained uptick in economic performance beyond pre-pandemic levels unlikely, notwithstanding strong growth estimates for 2021 and 2022. The last two years have taught the region that continued ‘business as usual’ is…

Improving broadband quality and affordability in the Caribbean: Policies to advance digital inclusion in the subregion. Policy Brief

In this digitally transforming world, digital inclusion is becoming increasingly important to social inclusion and sustainable development. Affordable access to broadband is an essential precondition to digital inclusion. Internet quality, as measured by speed and other indicators, is also important, as digital inclusion is ultimately about ensuring equal access to the benefits and opportunities offered by digital technologies and the Internet. This policy brief provides insight into Internet speed and affordability across the Caribbean, and offers some recommendations for policymakers working…