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Turning to Technology in Latin America’s Pandemic Response
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Overview
As the COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep deficiencies in public health and social welfare systems across Latin America, it nudged governments to experiment with new technologies to boost administrative and service-delivery capacity. To address urgent public health and economic needs, the officials responsible for digital innovation took center stage, spurring the rapid adoption of telemedicine, distance education technologies, e-payments, virtual legislating, remote justice, and contact tracing.
As Latin America emerges from the pandemic, the region’s public sector digital innovators can offer lessons about the role of technology in improving government efficiency, transparency, and accessibility, including in times of crisis. The wider adoption of these practices could boost the region’s prospects for post-pandemic recovery and help address inequality and widespread frustration with public services.
To learn about more about Latin America’s most technologically innovative government leaders, please join the Latin American Program on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a discussion on critical technologies for recovery and growth in Latin America. This seminar is co-sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This event is part of the Latin American Program’s “Going Digital” series, which features CEOs, senior policymakers and other experts discussing the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in Latin America.
*The event will have simultaneous interpretation English-Spanish available.
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Latin American Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin American Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
