Renowned chef Ferran Adrià presented his new collaboration with Telefónica—a cutting-edge center for gastronomical innovation called elBullifoundation—at AS/COA in New York on March 22.
Innovation & Technology
Americas Society and Council of the Americas launched the Winter 2010 issue of Americas Quarterly at an event in Bogota, Colombia, focused on connectivity and the next generation.
"With innovation, developing countries can find new ways to compete. But getting there requires improving citizens' access to information," writes Sebastián Mendoza Garrido, chief strategy officer for Panama's Container Consultants & Systems, in the Winter 2010 issue of Americas Quarterly.
An AS/COA program launched a new report by Fundacion IDEA on intellectual property rights protection in Mexico. Panelists discussed the larger linkages between IPR and innovation.
Ensuring that students have access to computers and the skills to use them will make Uruguay the most wired country in the world, writes President Tabaré Vázquez. This feature article appears in the Winter 2009 issue of Americas Quarterly, which examines connectivity and the digital divide. For more information, visit www.americasquarterly.org.
How to regulate user-generated content in Latin America and why it’s important.
In Latin America, the use of social networks in cyberspace has increased 83.3 percent over the past year—with room to grow.