Three priorities for Caribbean countries development include digital transformation, modern services exports and more South-South cooperation, in particular with Latin America. That was the position of ECLAC Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, expressed at the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), held today in Port of Spain.
Salazar-Xirinachs said that “small size has traditionally been seen in the development economics literature as associated with high costs given the difficulties to take advantage of …
To board the fourth industrial revolution “train” and avoid being razed by the technological “tsunami,” the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must first understand what this global process is about, identify the sectors that can harness new technologies and assess the potential benefits and costs of their use, authorities and specialists agreed at a special session on artificial intelligence that took place during the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development in Mexico City.
The goal of this session was to have a first …
Para subirse al “tren” de la cuarta revolución industrial y evitar ser arrasados por el “tsunami” tecnológico, los países de América Latina y el Caribe deben entender primero de qué se trata este proceso global, identificar los sectores que pueden nutrirse de las nuevas tecnologías y evaluar los posibles beneficios y costos de su utilización, coincidieron autoridades y especialistas en una sesión especial sobre inteligencia artificial realizada durante la primera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible en Ciudad de México.
El objetivo del esp…
En el Día Internacional de las Niñas en las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC), la División de Asuntos de Género de la CEPAL celebra y felicita las iniciativas regionales que promueven una mayor participación de las niñas y mujeres en el ámbito de las TIC.…
Informa sobre las actividades realizadas en cumplimiento de las resoluciones 6(V) Adquisicion de Servicios de Computacion y 7(V) Fortalecimiento del Secretariado del CDCC . Incluye en anexos, los informes de mision de dos expertos -Senor Hewitt, Director del Centro de Computos de CEPAL, Santiago, y Senor Pelaez Abin, experto cubano- sobre servicios de computacion para las necesidades del Centro de Documentacion del Caribe y Banco de Datos Estadisticos de CEPAL, Puerto Espana.…
26 Jun 2015, 05:30 - 15:00
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Evento (Monitoring committee)
“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)…