Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible

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Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y
el Desarrollo Sostenible
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What is INCAE?
INCAE is a private, non-profit multinational
institution dedicated to education and research,
in the areas of management, applied economics and
sustainable development INCAE is the leading
business schools in Latin America, educating its
decision-makers and supporting private and public
policy-makers in finding and implementing
solutions to their problems
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What does INCAE offer?

• Education of national and regional leaders
• An independent think-tank chartered to solve
  problems of the business communities and
  governments of the region, working on areas of
  the business environment, competitiveness and
  sustainability
• The preservation and promotion of values for the
  development process, including excellence,
  leadership, ethics, freedom, and sustainability
• A model for other organizations in the region

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CLACDS Mission
Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y
el Desarrollo Sostenible

• The Latin American Center for Competitiveness
  and Sustainable Development was created in order
  to support leaders in the private, public and
  civil sector in their efforts to implement
  changes towards sustainable development.

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Our vision of Sustainable Development

• . a prosperous country, where conditions for the
  operation of firms can provide the vast majority
  with satisfactory living conditions.
• . an equitable country, without people living in
  extreme poverty, where social mobility and
  opportunity are present
• . a mature country, where law, justice,
  democracy and safety are ensured
• . a sustainable country, that preserves its
  share of the worlds natural endowment, with
  stable social and environmental platforms
  supporting prosperity

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Our areas of work

• National and regional competitiveness agendas
• Small and Medium Enterprises
• Free Trade
• Rural Development
• Digital technologies for community development

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INCAE DIGITAL NATIONS
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If we want to grow, digital technologies are a
necessary condition

• Basis to develop innovation
• Attracting investment in high technologies
• Educated population that can use, appropriate and
  create new technology

Innovation-Driven Economy
Unique Value
Investment-Driven Economy
Efficiency
Factor-Driven Economy
The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003
Input Cost
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INCAE Digital Nations
Mission
Enhance life conditions of Central American
communities through the use and design of digital
tools and methodologies that foster creativity,
entrepreneurship, and the sustainable growth of
productivity
Vision
To become catalyst in a regional spectrum of the
digital technologies use for comunities
development
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IDN Working Projects
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el Desarrollo Sostenible

• Lincos advice and support
• Computer Clubhouse promotion
• Learning Independence Network LIN
• Digital Path
• Marketplace of ideas

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Learning Independence NetworkLIN

• Mission Develop local capacity to design --
  through interdisciplinary research -- relevant
  digital solutions (hardware, software and
  methodology), to improve the quality of
  education, healthcare and life in underserved
  communities.
• Potencial partners Academia, public and
  non-governmental sectors.

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Learning Independence NetworkLIN

• The dialogue and constant communication amongst
  the different partners in the Network is vital
  for its sustainability and success.
• FAB LAB brings the programmability of the digital
  world to the physical world through the
  development of technologies to personalize
  fabrication rather than computation, by using
  table-top means to make logic, sensing,
  actuation, and displays as well as mechanical
  structures.

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LIN CR Esperanza
Ministry of
Education
Costa Rica Institute of
INCAE
Technology (TEC)
MIT
Scientific High
Schools
National Institute of
Costa Rica
Biodiversity (INBIO)
University (UCR)
CIENTEC
LIN - ES
Ministry of
Education
Don Bosco
INCAE
University
MIT
Technical High Schools /
CRAs
Other Universities
Garc
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a Flamenco
(Shools of Education)
High School
FUSADES
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Digital PathICTs 4 Community Development

• Reinforcing rural community development in the
  region comprised in the Puebla-Panama Plan. This
  will be done through the innovative use of
  digital technologies and participatory learning
  methodologies.
• The program will be structured with three
  components support to social development
  development of materials and contents to use
  digital technology in rural areas, and program
  dissemination.

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Digital PathICTs 4 Community Development

• The key idea is using technology as a means to
  developing learning abilities and to appropriate
  useful knowledge to develop individuals and
  organizations making up the community. The goal
  is solving from their origin problems related to
  a low degree of development in rural areas,
  turning communities into the main players of
  their own development process.
• The benefits from the program are twofold. First,
  there is a direct effect on the social, economic,
  and environmental development of 40 communities
  in the region comprised in the Puebla-Panama
  Plan. Second, as a farther-reaching benefit, the
  program will allow developing materials and
  models to use information and communication
  technologies in rural areas.

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Marketplace of Ideas
Social Networks

• New, unorthodox approach to community work and to
  microeconomic development.
• Promising method to enhance the usefulness and
  sustainability of telecenters.
• Social network analysis to guide deployment.
• Digital tools to enhance social connectivity.
• Digital weaver to promote a better and richer
  marketplace of ideas.

Market of Ideas
Digital Weaver
ICTs
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