13 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:20
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Experts in the field of Digital Currency in the Caribbean reviewed the opportunities and risks associated with this type of currency at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, on 12 March 2015.
Experts addressed the potential impact that digital currencies may have on sectors such as banking, e-commerce and remittance, and will discuss whether the use of this new range of electronic payment technologies can enable improvements to electronic and mobile-based payment systems and low-cost remittance services.
At an earli…
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:20
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“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
16 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:20
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Country representatives from several Caribbean governments will discuss the findings of a recent study on how e-government systems are being implemented in the region, at a meeting in Port of Spain hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, on 17 March 2015.
Entitled “Regional approaches to e-government application development in the Caribbean”, the meeting will highlight ECLAC’s recommendations on how governments in the Caribbean could harmonise their efforts to acquire and implement e-government systems. The…
1 Abr 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:41
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This document was adapted from a paper originally presented to the 8th Annual Caribbean Conference of Comprehensive Disaster Management, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December, 2013. It summarizes several activities that ECLAC has undertaken to assess the current state of information and communications technology (ICT) in the field of disaster risk management (DRM) as practiced in the Caribbean. These activities included an in-depth study that encompassed a survey of disaster management organizations in the region, an Expert Group Meeting attended by the heads of several national disaster of…
1 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:41
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eLAC 2018 will coordinate the implementation of programmes to support the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in achieving social and economic development goals for Latin America in the Caribbean during the 2015-2018 timeframe. The conceptual framework for this programme of work is described by the eLAC 2018 Digital Agenda, which is anticipated to be ratified by the fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in August 2015 in Mexico City.
There is a need for broader input from Caribbean countries to the eLAC 2018…
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:20
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The Caribbean needs to provide affordable and wider access to digital services, while taking advantage of the opportunities created by technological convergence and mobile technologies.
As part of its continued support of these and other Caribbean priorities within the objectives of the eLAC 2018 Digital Agenda, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has outlined several objectives which will encourage broader input from the region.
Representatives of Caribbean countries have been invited to an informational webinar, which…