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

Skills for Life: Digital Skills

Skills for Life: Digital Skills

Digital skills are becoming more relevant than ever, because of the digital revolution that we are experiencing in the labor market, but also…
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…

Blogs

A one-stop-shop for our webinars on COVID-19

A one-stop-shop for our webinars on COVID-19

About a year ago, in March 2020, people worldwide were having their last workday in the office. Although life has slowly begun to return to…
Reducing health inequalities using digital health tools

Reducing health inequalities using digital health tools

Latin America and the Caribbean is known as one of the least equal regions in the world – and it is also unequal in terms of health. Did you…
It takes a virtual village: Digital tools for supporting new moms during and beyond COVID-19

It takes a virtual village: Digital tools for supporting new moms during and beyond COVID-19

“Try not to move so much during this next contraction so I can take your COVID-19 sample” was one of the phrases I had not planned on hearing…

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…