This report explores the opportunities for and challenges of the systematic use of publicly available digital data as a tool for formulating public policies for the development of the digital economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective is to share lessons learned in order to advance a research agenda that allows the countries of the region to create alternative measuring tools based on the digital footprint. Using big data techniques, the digital footprint left behind by labour market portals, e-commerce platforms and social media networks offer unprecedented information, both in…
En el presente informe se examinan las oportunidades y los desafíos que plantea el uso sistemático de datos digitales disponibles públicamente como herramienta para la formulación de políticas públicas para el desarrollo de la economía digital en América Latina y el Caribe. Tiene por objetivo compartir las experiencias adquiridas para avanzar en una agenda de investigación que permita a los países de la región crear herramientas de medición alternativas basadas en la huella digital. Mediante el uso de técnicas de megadatos (big data), la huella digital que dejan los portales de empleo, las pla…
Developed countries have for a long time collected statistics on science and technology (S&T); activities and their contribution to development and have also focused on how interpretation of these statistics could inform policy. In addition, these indicators, as they are called, have been used to determine and compare the relative positions of the various countries in the global economy. For such comparisons to be meaningful, however, it was necessary to standardize the units and methodologies. That process led to the development and adoption of a number of manuals, namely, Frascati, Oslo …
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