This document has been elaborated by the OECD and the IADB with the support and collaboration of the CNIC. The document is part of an effort of the CNIC to support the dynamics of innovation policy making in Chile on the basis of international good practices and peer review mechanisms. The document reviews and supports the process of strengthening institutional capacities for designing and implementing public policies for innovation in Chile.

This paper has two main objectives. First, it aims at briefly reviewing the concept of Regional Innovation System (RIS) as it has been proposed in the literature, and especially in light of the use that this notion has often had for policy purposes. Second, it reviews considerable empirical evidence from developed and developing countries available in on-line databases, papers and project documents and reports, in order to start exploring some lessons learnt from experience, and their use for the design and implementation of future policy interventions.

This paper examines the current and emerging trends in mobile health, with particular emphasis on lessons learned and on potential opportunities for Latin America to apply mobile services to health care efforts to benefit the majority of people.

This document presents a preliminary findings about "One Laptop per Child" program in Peru. On the one hand, were find evidence of better attitudes and expectations among teachers and parents; students that are more critical of school work and of their own performance; and a greater development of technological skills among girls and boys. On the other hand, there seems to be a decrease in the intensity of computer use in the classroom, as time passes and difficulties arise in the implementation of the project.

Education quality can be measured in various ways, including the analysis of learning and other outcomes in children and through the analysis of underlying services. In Brazil, a collaborative endeavor between the IDB, the Ministry of Education and the Carlos Chagas Foundation focuses on the latter. This brief details the processes and results to date.

There is a chance that by 2015, 30 million students in Latin America may have an electronic device for personal use devoted to aid in their learning. This represents an enormous educational challenge.

Chilean students perform poorly in international learning assessments, and the achievement gap between income groups is large. To remedy this situation, the Inter-American Development Bank is supporting a program, Enseña Chile, that recruits top university graduates and places them for two years in the most vulnerable schools.

Mexican students score low in international learning assessments, particularly in math. To help remedy this situation, the Inter-American Development Bank is supporting a pilot study to identify to what extent performance based incentives for students, teachers and principals in upper-secondary schools can improve students¿ mathematical skills, as measured by their scores in curriculum-based mathematics tests.