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Social Digital

Transformation for the future of social services

Social Digital is an initiative of the Social Sector (SCL) of the Inter-American Development Bank that leverages the benefits of technology to offer more and better social services in five sectors: Health and Social Protection, Education, Labor, Social Security, Migration and Gender and Diversity.

The main objectives of the IDB's digital transformation of the Social Sector are to improve the efficiency of the sector, improve the quality of social services and reduce inequality through digital services.

Social digital cluster working areas

Principios

Digital Transformation

A Public-private collaboration initiative to guide professionals applying digital technologies to development programs. There are nine Principles for Digital Development that are updated over time and designed to help integrate best practices into technology-enabled programs. The IDB joined this collaboration for its work on the digital agenda.

Catalogoen

Data Ecosystem

Sociómetro-BID is a diverse dataset of indicators designed to capture social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes indicators in five areas: Demographics, Education, Labor Market, Housing, and Income, disaggregated by ethnicity and race (when available) in addition to being disaggregated by gender, geographic residence, education, and income quintile.

Fairlac

fAIr LAC

Alliance between the public sector, the private sector and the civil society working together to ensure the adoption and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Work Sectors

Discover the work in digital transformation from each sector that aims to improve the provision of social services in Latin America and the Caribbean.
SPH

Social Protection and Health

Health policies, and development of skills and access to comprehensive quality programs for social protection

EDU

Education

Effective teaching and learning among all children and youth

LMK

Labor Markets and Social Security

Labor and social security policies that help create more and better jobs, and universal pension coverage

MIG

Migration

Transforming the challenges of migration into development opportunities

GDI

Gender and Diversity

Gender equality policies, promote an inclusive development for people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ and with identity for indigenous people and afro-descendants

Resources

Find digital tools and solutions that demonstrate how digital transformation can empower social services in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Publications

How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Holberton's Scalable Education for the Digital Economy

How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Holberton's Scalable Education for the Digital Economy

Latin America is entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where its digital world is increasingly controlling the physical one. The…
Education Policy Brief Latin America and the Caribbean #2: Four Key Elements to Make Hybrid Education a Reality

Education Policy Brief Latin America and the Caribbean #2: Four Key Elements to Make Hybrid Education a Reality

In order to maintain social distancing during the reopening of schools, the number of students per classroom should be reduced by…
PLAC Network Best Practices Series: Pension Supervision

PLAC Network Best Practices Series: Pension Supervision

This first Document of Best Practices of the PLAC Network systematizes good practices in pension supervision and risk-based supervision…
How Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Descomplica and Effective Remote Learning

How Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Descomplica and Effective Remote Learning

In Brazil, income and race impact on standardized test grades. Standardized test grades are the sole criterion for access to most public…

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Blogs

Education 2030: The Game Changers

Education 2030: The Game Changers

Education is being challenged from many fronts: students are not learning what they need in the basics (literacy and numeracy); they are…
Attention! We Are Looking for Women Leaders in Digital Health

Attention! We Are Looking for Women Leaders in Digital Health

Jennifer became alarmed when the application that monitored her pregnancy showed abnormal results. What was the problem? The software was…
The radio is still alive! And it has helped foster children´s development during the pandemic

The radio is still alive! And it has helped foster children´s development during the pandemic

At the beginning of the lockdown in Guatemala, due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, the staff of Juega Conmigo in Childfund faced a great challenge…

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Videos

How can Trinidad and Tobago develop new economic sectors? Promoting a diversification agenda

Trinidad’s reliance on oil and gas production makes it especially vulnerable to global energy market fluctuations. In light of these risks,…

Scholas Citizenship: innovative educational programs for vulnerable youth - Lessons from Haiti

"Scholas Citizenship" is an educational program that works with youth between the ages of 15 and 17 years from different schools in…

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Internal Toolkit

This toolkit consists of a list of general and sectorial tools designed to guide and support IDB specialists and operational teams in the preparation and execution of digital transformation projects or that contains digital components.

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