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 (IoT) technologies to smallholder farmers across the country’s Amazon Basin.
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 communities.
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 Innovation announced the incorporation of 13 municipalities into the Coalition of Cities for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CIIAR Chile), an initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in local governments.
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 opportunities for local communities.
This publication, prepared by Professor Geoff Mulgan for IDB Lab, examines how profound demographic shifts -particularly declining birth rates and population aging- pose a critical challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean. Far from being a distant issue, these trends are already reshaping societies and economies across the region.