A little over 30 years ago, when Amilcar Amaya was 13, he migrated with his family from El Salvador, leaving behind his native country amid a civil war in which 75,000 lives were lost and a fifth of the population was displaced.
In recent times, governments have expanded the use of centralized student assignment systems to solve the problems that arise in traditional enrollment processes and to make them more transparent, efficient, and equitable. To do this, it is important to be clear about four steps: 1) diagnosis and planning; 2) general definitions; 3) platform development; and 4) information interventions and communication campaigns. A fifth phase is added to evaluate and improve, which seeks to identify the optimization points of the implementation to adjust them in the next process.
In recent times, governments have expanded the use of centralized student assignment systems to solve the problems that arise in traditional enrollment processes and to make them more transparent, efficient, and equitable. To do this, it is important to be clear about four steps: 1) diagnosis and planning; 2) general definitions; 3) platform development; and 4) information interventions and communication campaigns. A fifth phase is added to evaluate and improve, which seeks to identify the optimization points of the implementation to adjust them in the next process.
Caregivers of young children in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru (62,837 households) participated in a survey on pandemic-era learning at home using resources supplied by educational ministries. The note presents data (disaggregated by socioeconomic group and geographic location) on the use of learning resources, including asynchronous and synchronous lessons, teachers communicate with parents, by text or WhatsApp messages, phone or video calls, as well as printed materials.
Este documento describe un experimento implementado en Costa Rica para aumentar el aprendizaje de estudiantes del nivel preescolar durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Aprovechando las redes existentes de padres, estudiamos el efecto directo de ser seleccionado para recibir los mensajes de texto SMS, así como los efectos indirectos de ser parte de una red de padres. Los mensajes de texto se enviaron a los padres o apoderados de los niños y niñas con el objetivo de apoyar su aprendizaje en el hogar.
Women remain underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) despite extensive efforts across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to increase their participation in these fields. IDB research finds that women are significantly underrepresented among engineering, IT, industry, and construction graduates in every Latin American country.
A digital citizen is a person who uses information technology (IT) to participate in society, politics, and government. Karen Mossberger defines it as ” those who use the Internet regularly and effectively” in her book Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation. They have a comprehensive understanding of digital citizenship, which is responsible and appropriate behavior when using technology.
Access Now is an international non-profit organization, created in 2009 in order to ensure human rights, public policy and activism in defense of the open and free Internet.
The importance of language as a vehicle for communication and preservation of cultures is well known. The indigenous communities are fighting so theirs are not lost and preserve them for future generations. The United Nations declares 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, as a proposal to increase the visibility of this fact.
Deforestation in the Amazon is a reality. In addition to the risk that it represents for the ecosystem of the region, the indigenous people who live there are seriously affected. Tokenize Amazon emerges under this premise, a project that innovatively aims to counteract the practice of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.