WeXchange, IDB Lab’s platform focused on expanding access to opportunities for women entrepreneurs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across Latin America and the Caribbean, has launched the fourteenth edition of its regional Women STEMpreneurs Competition. With the support...

GEORGETOWN — IDB Lab, the innovation and venture arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), and the University of Guyana’s Institute of Food and Nutrition Security (IFANS) launched an initiative to bring precision agriculture, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things...

By Shreshta Chotelal Along the upper Saramacca River in Suriname, the Matawai community has lived for generations in close connection with a vast stretch of Amazon rainforest. A tribal community with a rich cultural heritage that is deeply connected to the land and river systems that sustain their...

They will join a coalition under GovTech Connect, which promotes collaboration to solve public challenges through innovative solutions. SANTIAGO, CHILE — IDB Lab, the innovation and venture arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, and Chile’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and...

By Paula Auerbach and Javier Madariaga In the department of Pando, in the Bolivian Amazon, Pando Verde—an initiative implemented by Conservación Amazónica (ACEAA) with the support of IDB Lab—is advancing the development of a productive model that links forest conservation with concrete economic...