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Knowledge management
Activities
Training session on increasing access to technology for Persons with…
The training will help participants to better utilise Universal service funds (USFs) to increase access to technology for persons with disabilities thereby supporting governments in the subregion in advancing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Exploring Innovation in Transactions & Financing in the Caribbean
The workshop is co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). Its primary purpose is to provide Caribbean stakeholders from various sectors with interactive sessions along the theme of utilizing technology innovations towards the goal of improving financial transactions and financing arrangements.
Expert Group Meeting on “Knowledge Management in the Public Sector” and…
The purpose of the meeting was to analyse the concepts of “knowledge networks” and to show the impacts that the active support and maintenance of knowledge networks could have on development by promoting better relationship between governments, stakeholders, agencies and citizens.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World, and Latin America and the Caribbean Cannot Fall Behind
At ECLAC, authorities and experts analyze AI’s potential for overcoming the development traps in which the region is mired and driving essential transformations to achieve more productive, inclusive and sustainable development.
ECLAC Supports Strengthening Argentine Provinces’ Capacities in New Areas
In conjunction with authorities and experts from government, academia, the private sector and civil society in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Entre Ríos, the United Nations organization’s national office made headway on three technical studies that allow for expanding policy design and analysis capabilities on issues of relevance: the knowledge economy, productive development, and gender.
The 2023 Open Science webinars unveil exciting Initiatives
To recap the highlights of this year's Open Science webinar series, we invite you to review the various events that featured innovative Open Science projects from Latin America and beyond.
ECLAC Launched Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
At a virtual event led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, with the participation of prominent specialists in this area, officials presented this tool, which includes an interactive map with around 258 georeferenced initiatives thus far.
