In this digitally transforming world, digital inclusion is becoming increasingly important to social inclusion and sustainable development. Affordable access to broadband is an essential precondition to digital inclusion. Internet quality, as measured by speed and other indicators, is also important, as digital inclusion is ultimately about ensuring equal access to the benefits and opportunities offered by digital technologies and the Internet. This policy brief provides insight into Internet speed and affordability across the Caribbean, and offers some recommendations for policymakers working…
El taller, realizado a trabajadores de una de las comunas más habitadas de Chile, tuvo como objetivo apoyar en la formulación de los compromisos que serán implementados en el Primer Plan de Acción Local de Gobierno Abierto.…
In Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS), electrical power outages are frequent in the aftermath of major weather events. While local service disruptions often last a few days after these events, nationwide power grid failures lasting several weeks, or months have resulted in enormous social and economic impacts. In 2017, Hurricane Maria left 90 per cent of the population of Dominica without access to electricity for over four months (Commonwealth of Dominica, 2020) and caused a systemwide collapse of Puerto Rico's power grid that took 11 months to be entirely restored (Campbell…
En este documento se reúne un conjunto de análisis sobre temas vinculados al desarrollo regional que tienen como propósito orientar el trabajo de especialistas y encargados de diseñar políticas de desarrollo territorial en los países de la región.
Si bien en el documento se hace referencia específica a la experiencia en Costa Rica, el camino allí recorrido permite contar con insumos que contribuirán a acortar las curvas de aprendizaje sobre políticas de desarrollo regional en otros países. El caso de Costa Rica se complementa con experiencias europeas y latinoamericanas que pueden constituir u…
El X Seminario de la Red de Sistemas Nacionales de Inversión Pública de América Latina y el Caribe – Red SNIP se celebró el 3 y 4 de noviembre en República Dominicana.…
The Caribbean faces multidimensional vulnerabilities driven by climate change and aggravated by Small Island Developing States’ natural and economic characteristics (SIDS). A critical natural feature of SIDS is the extreme vulnerability to climate-change-induced events. Economically, the Caribbean has followed the global trend of seeing its urban areas swell during the last decades. Moreover, the region’s coastal areas expose human settlements, infrastructure, and businesses to external shocks, such as climate change-induced extreme weather events. In addition, the 2019 novel coronavirus disea…
Many international development agendas highlight the importance of quality data for sustainable development. With the advent of the data revolution for sustainable development, stakeholders have underscored the value of timely, usable data in informing decision-making and for monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes, be it in relation to national development planning or as regards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international development agendas. Crucially, the COVID-19 pandemic, more than anything else in recent times, has demonstrated the value of tim…
En este documento se presentan los pasos para la aplicación de un modelo de simulación de la movilidad sostenible. Esta herramienta permite desarrollar de manera interactiva escenarios futuros de movilidad que integren variables de diferentes áreas temáticas, para, de ese modo, visualizar las interrelaciones entre dimensiones del desarrollo y sus consecuencias en la movilidad de una ciudad. El uso del modelo permite identificar, mediante una interfaz visual de fácil operación, los impactos indirectos de ciertas variables o los efectos en el largo plazo de la aplicación de políticas, programas …
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