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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

Innovation Skills in the Public Sector - Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate Public Governance Committee
This document is about innovation skills in the public sector and building capability. It provides insight into the challenges faced and what can be done to strengthen the capacity to innovate.
10 March 2017

Gobiernos locales centroamericanos: apuntes normativos y mapeo de actores
El Área de Gestión Pública a partir del 2012 inició con el proceso de elaboración y diseño de la Estrategia para el Fortalecimiento y Modernización de la Gestión Pública Local de Centroamérica y República Dominicana, como uno de los ejes claves de la labor del Área en materia de gestión pública. Este escrito se presenta como uno de los primeros documentos técnicos que fundamenta la creación de la Estrategia, realizando una identificación de actores, proyectos y avances en materia de gestión pública local, dando como resultado un amplio documento en forma de "mapa" del estado de la cuestión en Centroamérica de los gobiernos locales.
31 January 2017

News

India: 90% Security Professionals Admit Cyber Attack in Last Two Years
A study has found that 90 percent of critical infrastructure security professionals have admitted their environments had been damaged by at least one cyberattack over the past two years, with 62 percent experiencing two or more attacks.
30 April 2019

New Urban Policy for New India
The Draft ‘National Urban Policy Framework (NUPF)’ outlines an integrated and coherent approach towards the urbanisation in India and we are seeking citizens’ comments on this through the SmartNet and MyGov portals to put in place a comprehensive urban policy which would result in complete urban transformation in the country in coming years, says Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India, in an exclusive interview with Souvik Goswami of Elets News Network (ENN).
30 April 2019

Plan Underway to Develop First Smart City in Sri Lanka
Polonnaruwa district in Sri Lanka has been selected to be developed as the country’s first “Smart City”, a Sri Lankan official has said. Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) Chairman Kumarasinghe Sirisena said that several projects have been launched to upgrade education, health and transportation in Polonnaruwa.
30 April 2019

Thematic Websites

Caribbean E-Government Knowledge Bank

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