(9 February 2010) The lower the educational level of youths, the more difficult it is for them to access quality and highly-productive jobs, especially among young women, stated ECLAC's Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, during the II Latin America and Caribbean - European Union Forum (LAC-EU) taking place in Lima, Peru.
The Forum is being held from February 8-10 under the theme "Promoting decent work for youths. New capabilities for new jobs", and participants include government ministers and other high ranking officials from a dozen countries of the region and Europe, as well as repr…
(26 October 2010) Government officials and representatives of international agencies and civil society will gather from 21-23 November in Lima, Peru for the Third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society of Latin America and the Caribbean.
At this forum, ECLAC member countries will approve a new regional plan of action called eLAC2015, which conceives information and communications technologies (ICTs) as tools for achieving economic development with innovation and equality.
The conference will be inaugurated on Monday, 22 November at 9 a.m by the President of Peru, Alan García Pérez, …
(20 October 2010) Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing society and their dissemination has become a vital tool for reducing inequality gaps in Latin American and Caribbean nations, said the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, during the inauguration of a seminar at Commission headquarters.
In the seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights, government officials and experts analyzed the contribution of ICTs to countries' social development, particularly in education and health, and how they can be incorporated in…
(6 October 2010) With the high-level conference "The importance of public policies for innovation", the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will inaugurate next week the School for Policymakers in Science, Technology and Innovation at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
The school, to be held from 13 October to 5 November, seeks to provide training for government officials in charge of designing, following up, assessing and implementing policies in science, technology and innovation, and enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences.
It is organized by ECLAC in c…
(11 March 2010) Ministerial delegations from Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union will gather for theV EU-LAC Ministerial Forum on the Information Society to discuss the needs and priorities of the future digital agendas in both regions. The meeting will take place at La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia, Spain) on 14-15 March, 2010.
Under the theme "Digital Content for a Digital Society", government delegates will discuss how to adapt their future digital agendas to the specific characteristics of the region so as to contribute to reducing the digital gap and promote ec…
(15 October 2010) The contribution that information and communications technologies (ICTs) can make to social development, especially in the fields of education and health, will be examined during an international seminar to be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, 20 October.
The seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights is organized by ECLAC's Social Development Division with the support of the European Union through its cooperation initiative LIS.
The event will discuss the most significant ICT issues and their contribution to …