Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, when applied well, could help in addressing key global challenges and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, these potential benefits will not materialize automatically. The use of AI also carries significant risks, such as disruption to job markets and economies, loss of cultural diversity, new AI-enabled digital weapons that increase misinformation and surveillance, and threats to human rights and democracy. While AI systems could support the achievement of many of the SDGs , they could also impede the achievement of others and increa…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) se encuentra recibiendo artículos originales e inéditos sobre resultados de investigaciones, reflexiones o experiencias en asuntos de población para incluir en la edición 115 de su revista Notas de Población, número que continuará privilegiando los trabajos que aborden el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en la dinámica demográfica de la región.
Con más de 45 años de trayectoria, Notas de Población es una publicación semestral que se emite los meses de junio y diciembre. Su propósito principal es difundir estudios sobre la poblaci…
Este documento explora distintas experiencias de construcción de tejidos territoriales a partir de procesos de uso y apropiación de tecnologías digitales por parte de jóvenes, en distintas partes de Colombia, en las que han jugado un papel determinante docentes y rectores de instituciones educativas, así como líderes comunitarios. Se indaga acerca de la contribución que tales experiencias pueden hacer a la construcción de tejidos territoriales.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
With a call to strengthen multilateralism, democracy and regional cooperation, the third meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development was inaugurated today at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. This event brings together representatives of government, civil society, international organizations, the private sector and academia to review the progress and challenges related to implementing the 2030 Agenda in the region.
The high-level event – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the govern…