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31 July 2017

Digital Government Week: Digital Government for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The Digital Government week will be held in Colombia, Bogota from 25 to 27 October 2017 and aims to gather international experts working on digital public innovation. As part of the week, the INDIGO Awards for Digital Public Innovation will be held to highlight global innovations in digital government implementation. The theme for the event will be ‘Digital Government for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’. For more information contact mpilonieta@mintic.gov.co.

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08 February 2016

Featured News from ECLAC

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Germany agreed on January 26, in Berlin through a convention signed by both parties that the new joint cooperation programme for the period 2016-2018 will be dedicated to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region.

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19 January 2016

Public Integrity Social Demand in Latin America

Video Message: Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), speaking on Public Integrity, social demand in the region as well as the work of the ECLAC creating and generating travel information society.

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28 December 2015

Recapping this Year through the Lens of ECLAC

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published in 2015 diverse studies regarding the economic, social and environmental situation in the region, including six flagship annual reports that provided statistical information, timely analysis and short- and medium-term outlooks on issues as varied as the expansion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the behavior of foreign investment and international trade, and the evolution of poverty and inequality.

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16 December 2015

Latin American and Caribbean Growth Projection for 2015 and 2016

Latin American and Caribbean economies will contract -0.4% on average in 2015 and will grow just 0.2% next year, affected by a complex external scenario, according to new projections unveiled today by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

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10 December 2015

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2016 Launched

Latin America’s GDP growth slowdown deepened and is expected to be negative in 2015. For a second consecutive year, Latin America falls behind the average growth of OECD countries after a full decade of convergence with advanced economies, according to the Latin American Economic Outlook 2016.

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23 July 2015

Promotional Video on the XX International Congress of CLAD on State and Public Administration Reform

Click here to watch the promotional video about "XX International Congress of CLAD on State and Public Administration Reform", which will be held in Lima, Peru, from November 10-13, 2015.

03 May 2015

XX International Congress of CLAD on State and Public Administration Reform

The Latin American Center for Development Administration (CLAD) and the Government of Peru, through the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), are pleased to announce the celebration of the XX International Congress of CLAD on State Reform and Public Administration which will be held in Lima, Peru, from 10-13 November, 2015.

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03 August 2014

Featured News from ECLAC

"Whoever is not connected will be excluded in an ever more intensive and broader way", this is according to the publication The integration of digital technologies in the schools of Latin America and the Caribbean: a multidimensional overview (Spanish only), which was presented on Friday 18 July at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

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Events

Documents

Contribución de los Servicios Civiles en el fortalecimiento del Estado Democrático y en la construcción del Gobierno Abierto
Realiza un análisis comparativo entre las variables del barómetro sobre la profesionalización del empleo público en la región y los índices vinculados con transparencia, rendición de cuentas, percepción de corrupción, control de corrupción, estado democrático y estabilidad política, con el fin de destacar el rol que desempeñan los servicios civiles en la construcción y fortalecimiento del sistema democrático.
29 May 2019

Aporte de los servicios civiles al fortalecimiento de la gobernanza, la gestión y la administración pública
La credibilidad, el respeto, la convicción y el marco de la ley en el cual se sustentan los regímenes de los servicios civiles y de carrera administrativa en los países de la región y República Dominicana, hacen lograr de los gobiernos su eficiencia y su eficacia con respecto a un recurso humano profesionalizado e idóneo con aportes y productos de calidad, lo cual permite el mejoramiento necesario y continuo, tendientes a modernizar e innovar la administración pública en todo su contexto, lo que a su vez implica, tanto el fortalecimiento de la gobernanza, como el éxito de una administración de recursos humanos proactiva en la gestión gubernamental de nuestras naciones".
29 May 2019

News

Canadians Use YouTube to Learn, and Other Takeaways from the Watchtime Canada Report
We all remember when astronaut Chris Hadfield uploaded a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” to YouTube in 2013 before he finished his tour on the International Space Station.
02 June 2019

Government Investments in AI Research Doesn’t Lead to Strong Adoption
Canada has made huge waves in the research of artificial intelligence in recent years, but some in the industry are saying that this is not enough and that we must now take the next vital step: actual implementation.
02 June 2019

Leveraging Technology to Manage Healthcare at Home
In the same week that national newspapers decried a crisis in healthcare, quieter news spelled hope for those concerned with improving the quality of life for Canada’s rising number of seniors.
02 June 2019

Thematic Websites

Caribbean E-Government Knowledge Bank

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