The editor-in-chief of Wired.com predicts what trends and technologies will revolutionize the Internet in the next five years.
Innovation & Technology
Hernán Galperín, Denise Dresser, Rebeca Grynspan, Jorge Castañeda, and Jonathan Zittrain discuss how to close the digital divide.
Brazil is trying to catch up on IT on its own terms.
Panelists highlighted the country’s growing software and technology capabilities, its geographic and regulatory advantages, and successful cases of U.S. and global corporations that have invested in Mexico’s IT service sector.
Underdeveloped logistics and online payments methods are the main impediments to greater e-commerce transactions in Latin America, writes Klaus Stoll, the senior executive vice president of the Community Access Foundation.
Mauricio Ardila of George Washington University looks at the evolution of Facebook and how users organically mobilized millions of people to march against the FARC in Colombia.
Schering-Plough's Pierre Verstraete encourages Latin American legislators to implement strong intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals to boost funding for more drug research and development projects in the region.