Development trends and challenges for local e-governments: evidence from municipalities in Chile and Peru

Includes bibliography

Population information and development in Latin America: suggested projects to be carried out by or in collaboration with the Latin American Population Information Area (INFOPAL) of CELADE

Previa una breve descripcion de los objetivos y actividades de INFOPAL, se formula un conjunto de proposiciones de proyectos a desarrollar en el futuro, con apoyo externo a Naciones Unidas, a traves de cada una de las unidades que integran el Programa, a saber: DOCPAL, unidad de procesamiento de la informacion en poblacion, y el Banco de Datos.

VRS: vital registration software package; information and operating manual

Manual que entrega instrucciones para el uso del programa computacional diseñado para el procesamiento ágil de las estadísticas vitales, escrito en Clipper y operado en microcomputador. Permite el ingreso relativamente simple de los datos y la posibilidad de obtener tabulaciones. Contiene tres secciones: a) entrada de datos; b) generación de tablas; c) apéndices. Entre éstos hay uno que incluye una lista de las variables para nacimientos y muertes.

Characteristics of households with ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

The global information society: a statistical view

Includes bibliography

Background information and e-Health applications in Argentina

Includes bibliography

The evolutionary approach applied to ICT and agriculture technological systems in Latin America: a survey

Includes bibliography

ICT adoption and diffusion patterns in Latin American agriculture

Includes bibliography

Trends and potential uses of ICTs in Latin American and the Caribbean agriculture

Includes bibliography

Principal barriers to the adoption of ICTs in agriculture and in rural areas

Includes bibliography

ICTs in public agricultural institutions in Latin America: Uruguay, Costa Rica and Paraguay case studies

Includes bibliography

The digital economy for structural change and equality

Includes bibliography.

New information and telecommunications technology in the transport sector

The growing use of e-commerce and the need to generate efficient solutions to problems such as traffic jams and the physical distribution of merchandise have created a new scenario for transport in general, particularly in urban areas. Because of this, the application of new information and telecommunications technologies presents a strategic challenge that enables maximum advantage to be obtained from the deregulation of markets and the opening up of economies, as well as addressing other urgent needs of this sector. This issue of the Bulletin is based on a study of the application of information and telecommunications technologies to fleet management and urban transport, being carried out by the ECLAC Transport Unit. Although the study focuses on the impact of these technologies in these fields, its reflections, analysis and conclusions are also applicable in other areas of the transport sector.

Big data and open data as sustainability tools: A working paper prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The two main forces affecting economic development are the ongoing technological revolution and the challenge of sustainability. Technological change is altering patterns of production, consumption and behaviour in societies; at the same time, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure the sustainability of these new patterns because of the constraints resulting from the negative externalities generated by economic growth and, in many cases, by technical progress itself. Reorienting innovation towards reducing or, if possible, reversing the effects of these externalities could create the conditions for synergies between the two processes. Views on the subject vary widely: while some maintain that these synergies can easily be created if growth follows an environmentally friendly model, summarized in the concept of green growth, others argue that production and consumption patterns are changing too slowly and that any technological fix will come too late. These considerations apply to hard technologies, essentially those used in production. The present document explores the opportunities being opened up by new ones, basically information and communication technologies, in terms of increasing the effectiveness (outcomes) and efficiency (relative costs) of soft technologies that can improve the way environmental issues are handled in business management and in public policy formulation and implementation.