Revista CEPAL no. 119

The Hummingbird Vol.3 No.7

Expert survey on priorities for the information society in the Caribbean

An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10. S…

The Hummingbird Vol. 3 No. 4

The Hummingbird Vol. 3 No. 3

Opportunities and risks associated with the advent of digital currency in the Caribbean

This report examines the usage of digital currency technology in the Caribbean subregion with a view to drawing attention to the opportunities and risks associated with this new phenomenon. It discusses the broader context of an emerging activity at the global level and considers how this technology could address subregional deficiencies in the electronic payment infrastructure. The report also discusses mobile money solutions, and the relationship of that technology to digital currency.…

Report of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico: industrial policies and the production of information and communication technology goods and services

This study investigates the extent to which the digital boom has had repercussions on productive activity, in terms of both manufacturing (ict goods) and services (ict services), in addition to its potential ramifications in the rest of the Mexican economy. Input-output matrices are used and compared to those of Brazil and the United States. Mexico has fallen behind, particularly in the production of ict goods, and the productive chains of this activity have weakened. The ict services sector offers much greater potential than has been exploited thus far, with the advantage that it involves com…

México: políticas industriales y producción de bienes y servicios de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación

En este estudio se investiga hasta qué punto el auge digital ha repercutido en la actividad productiva, la manufactura (bienes tic) y los servicios tic, además de sus potenciales ramificaciones en el resto de la economía mexicana. Se utilizan las matrices de insumoproducto (mip) y se hace referencia a las del Brasil y los Estados Unidos de América. México se ha rezagado, especialmente en la producción de bienes tic, y las cadenas productivas de esta actividad se han debilitado. El sector de servicios tic ofrece un potencial mucho mayor que el aprovechado hasta ahora, con la ventaja de incorpor…

Informe de la Quinta Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Sociedad de la Información en América Latina y el Caribe

The Hummingbird Vol.2 No.9

Mexico City Declaration (Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean)

Declaración de Ciudad de México (Quinta Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Sociedad de la Información de América Latina y el Caribe)

The Hummingbird Vol.2 No.8

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

“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…

Proposed digital agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2018)

Propuesta de agenda digital para América Latina y el Caribe (eLAC2018)

Annotated provisional agenda. Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Temario provisional anotado. Quinta Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Sociedad de la Información de América Latina y el Caribe