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 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…
How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Deep Learning: Transforming Systems to Prepare Tomorrow’s Citizens

How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Deep Learning: Transforming Systems to Prepare Tomorrow’s Citizens

Disruptive innovators take advantage of unique opportunities. Prior to COVID-19 progress in Latin America and the Caribbean for integrating…
The Future is Now: Transversal Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century

The Future is Now: Transversal Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century

The 21st century is not in the future: it is happening now. Accelerated changes in technology, migration, demographics, and climate are…
Are Behaviorally Informed Text Messages Effective in Promoting Compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Measures?: Evidence from an RCT in the City of Sao Paulo

Are Behaviorally Informed Text Messages Effective in Promoting Compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Measures?: Evidence from an RCT in the City of Sao Paulo

The COVID-19 pandemic has required societal behavioral change in order to slow the spread of the virus. Making people keep proper distance…

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 Are People Experiencing Telework in Latin America and the Caribbean?

#Telework #Latinamerica #Caribbean #Covid19 COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the way we work. In the wake of the pandemic, many…

Skills Development Strategies to Leverage Opportunities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Technologies are transforming labor markets. How is Jamaica mitigating the workers' displacement in the Global Services Sector?…

My Life Without an ID: The Road to Identity

The National Registry of Identification and Civil Status of Peru has provided a unique, legal identity to over 500.000 individuals in…