Este documento está dirigido a todos los sectores (gobierno, sociedad civil organizada, sector académico y sector privado) comprometidos con la tarea de forjar la gobernanza de sus iniciativas de gobierno digital y alcanzar la interoperabilidad gubernamental entre sus instituciones mediante el uso de pautas y recomendaciones formuladas a partir de la experiencia internacional y que fueron aplicadas en un caso práctico.
Se trata de un reconocimiento de la CEPAL de la importancia de la gobernanza digital y la interoperabilidad gubernamental como factores relevantes para el progreso de los países…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
In the Caribbean, there are approximately 1.3 million persons with a disability of some kind and some 250,000 persons with a significant disability. These numbers are projected to increase dramatically in the coming decades as the population of the subregion ages and given the global increase in chronic health conditions.
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) face a range of physical, social, attitudinal and institutional barriers that prevent their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. As a result, they experience less favorable outcomes in health, education, …