Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible

Centro Latinoamericano para la

Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible

¿What is INCAE?¿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

Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo

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What does INCAE offer?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 MissionCLACDS Mission

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 DevelopmentOur 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 world’s natural endowment, with stable social and environmental platforms supporting prosperity

Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible

Our areas of workOur areas of work

• National and regional competitiveness agendas

• Small and Medium Enterprises

• Free Trade

• Rural Development

• Digital technologies for community development


IINCAE NCAE DDIGITAL IGITAL NNATIONSATIONS

If If wewe want to grow, digital want to grow, digital technologies are a necessary technologies are a necessary

conditionconditionBasis to develop innovation:

• Attracting investment in high technologies

• Educated population that can use, appropriate and create new technology

Factor-Driven Economy

Input Cost

Investment-DrivenEconomy

Efficiency

Innovation-DrivenEconomy

Unique Value

The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003

INCAE Digital NationsINCAE Digital Nations

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

Mission

To become catalyst in a regional spectrum of the digital technologies’ use for comunities’ development

Vision

IDN Working ProjectsIDN Working Projects


• Lincos: advice and support

• Computer Clubhouse: promotion

• Learning Independence Network LIN

• Digital Path

• Marketplace of ideas

Learning Independence NetworkLearning Independence NetworkLINLIN

• 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.

Learning Independence NetworkLearning Independence NetworkLINLIN

• 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.

LIN - ESLIN - ES

LIN – CRLIN – CREsperanzaEsperanza

Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC)

National Institute of Biodiversity (INBIO)

INCAE

Scientific High Schools

Ministry of Education

MIT

CIENTEC

Costa Rica University (UCR)

Don Bosco University

Other Universities

(Shools of Education)

INCAE

Technical High Schools / CRAs

Ministry of Education

García Flamenco High School

MIT

FUSADES

Digital PathDigital PathICTs 4 Community DevelopmentICTs 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.

Digital PathDigital PathICTs 4 Community DevelopmentICTs 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.

Marketplace of IdeasMarketplace of Ideas

• 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.

Social Networks

Market of Ideas

ICTs Digital Weaver

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