School of Digital Transformation and Innovation in Latin America, 2024

ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION

The School of Digital Transformation and Innovation was conceived as a capacity development program to provide relevant content to policymakers through conferences, mini-courses, case studies, peer learning and debates in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In its ten years of implementation, the School has established itself as a relevant area of ​​learning and cooperation, which fosters intersectoral and multi-stakeholder debate with the participation of policymakers, international experts and professionals from various sectors, in which They address the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation and innovation in the region.
In 2024, the School will have an edition for Latin America, developed in Spanish and Portuguese, and an edition for the Caribbean, in English, with coordinated agendas. This technical note refers to the edition for Latin America.

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS

The 2024 edition of the Digital Transformation School is run by:
ECLAC: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
CAF: Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cetic.br|NIC.br: Regional Center for Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), a department of the Information and Coordination Center of the BR Point (NIC.br).
LAC Internet Technical Community: LACNIC, ICANN, Internet Society, LACTLD, LAC-IX, LACNOG, Red CLARA.

GOALS

The 10th edition of the School of Digital Transformation in Latin America will bring together leading specialists, people in charge of formulating digital transformation policies and researchers interested in the role of innovation and digitalization for the development of the region, with the objective of providing a space for learning and debate whose common thread is meaningful connectivity.
The 2024 edition of the Digital Transformation School is organized around 5 thematic axes:

From access to meaningful connectivity

• Conceptualization and measurement of meaningful connectivity.
• Advances and main gaps in Latin America.
• Investments for connectivity infrastructure.
• Regulatory challenges and key policies for infrastructure development in the context of digital transformation.

Internet: operation, actors and current challenges

• Technical aspects of the operation of the Internet.
• Normative and regulatory aspects of the operation of the Internet.
• Current challenges and debates: Internet fragmentation, fair share.
• Internet governance. Multi-stakeholder model.

Digital inclusion and social development

• Digital skills: conceptualization and measurement.
• Digital skills, citizen participation and employability.
• Development of digital citizenship within the framework of a democratic Internet.

Digital transformation and development

• Digitization of production processes and green technologies.
• Emerging technologies: challenges and opportunities for the adoption of 5G, generative Artificial Intelligence and immersive technologies.
• Integration mechanisms for regional digital markets.
• Digital government for socio-economic development.

Cybersecurity and privacy

• Current challenges in cybersecurity.
• Cybersecurity and emerging technologies.
• International standards and best practices.
• Current debates in digital security: national and regional strategies.

The specific objectives of the Digital Transformation School are:

• Bring together specialists from Latin America and other regions to deliver relevant content on emerging topics linked to digital transformation, evidence-based innovation, the digital economy and data governance.
• Provide a comparative perspective between Latin America and other regions regarding innovation and digital transformation processes, including regulatory and policy frameworks.
• Provide a space for the exchange of conceptual frameworks, knowledge, and experiences, with discussion of practical cases of development of models for the digitalization of production, investment models, financing for the deployment of broadband infrastructure, measurement and formulation of evidence-based policies, including the production and use of statistical data.
• Disseminate good practices in the field of regulation, innovation and data governance.
• Promote the formation of a space of trust for the exchange of good practices and professional development.