These courses kicked off the 2025 edition of the training program on quantitative analysis techniques for public administration officials in Argentina, organized annually by the Office in Argentina of the regional United Nations body.…
Estos cursos iniciaron la edición 2025 del programa de capacitación en técnicas de análisis cuantitativo para funcionarios/as de la administración pública de Argentina dictado cada año por la Oficina del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas en Argentina…
As the latest edition of the Development Policy Studies Program (ELADES) concluded, Felipe Correa, ELADES coordinator, highlighted how the Library's services have been important in facilitating the program and shared its recent innovations.…
Concluyendo la última edición del Programa de Estudios sobre Políticas de Desarrollo (ELADES), Felipe Correa, coordinador de ELADES, destaca cómo el servicio de la Biblioteca ha sido importante para facilitar el programa y comparte sus recientes innovaciones.…
2023 saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools becoming widely available to the general public, leading to the generation of new works of art, songs, text, and computer code. This explosion in new outputs has led to much excitement around AI’s potential, but
also brought to the forefront concerns about countries and communities being left behind, and the technology’s potential to harm individuals and societies. This issue of FOCUS magazine discusses the potential impact of AI on the Caribbean, and avenues
to develop tailored AI policies, governance systems, and to engage with AI issues at the int…
La formación y capacitación alineada con las necesidades del mercado laboral es indispensable para mejorar la productividad y contribuir al desarrollo económico y social. El objetivo de este documento es presentar los principales resultados obtenidos a partir del desarrollo de una herramienta de relacionamiento entre perfiles ocupacionales de la Comisión del Sistema Nacional de Certificación de Competencias Laborales (ChileValora) y planes formativos del Servicio Nacional de Capacitación y Empleo (SENCE) de Chile, utilizando herramientas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural. Esta metodología p…
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…
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