International Agenda
Digital Conference - 5G and gender: The future is equitable 4/11/2021
The Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), of the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), together with the Foro del Sur Foundation and Mujeres ConnectAmericas, the IDB platform that promotes export capacity of businesswomen from Latin America and the Caribbean, have organized an event on international insertion, gender and technology. The activity aimed to reflect on the challenges and opportunities that women have in international trade around new technologies. In this sense, this space for dialogue proposed the debate on how to contribute to closing gender gaps.
On this occasion, the recently published study "New exportable services from the 5G network: How to take advantage of them to reduce the gender gap?" was presented.
The document analyzes the physical and digital infrastructure that Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have, as well as the plans around the adoption of the 5G network in the short term, with the aim of investigating the possibility for these countries to position themselves in regional and global value chains in the service sector and that the jobs they create become opportunities for women. In particular, the study focuses on health and entertainment services, as well as Software and Information Services (SIS).
The event constituted a space to expose job opportunities and international insertion for women from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in certain service sectors as a result of the development of 5G in those countries, as well as to discuss the recommendations that allow their potential.
Participants:
Ana Basco - Director of the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Inter-American Development Bank
Paula Coto - Executive Director at Girls in Technology
July Emperatriz Jimenez Orjuela - Specialist in Integration and Trade for Technological Solutions at the Inter-American Development Bank
Marlise Ilhesca - Executive Director Foro del Sur Foundation
Luiz Kazan - Business Development Manager for Smart Cities and Industry 4.0. - EMBRATEL
Gustavo Bazzan - Editor of the Country section at Clarín
Celeste de Marco - Researcher at CONICET / CEAR
Maryleana Mendez - Regulatory Advisor at HBM Group Central America - Inter-American Association of Telecommunications Companies
Silvia Naishtat - Editor of the Economics section at Clarín
Mariano Pereira - Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation and co-author of the publication
Carlos Rebellon - Vice President, Program Director, Product Client Solutions at Northern Trust Corporation
Nicole Rodriguez - Associate Vice President of Partner Solutions at AT&T in Mexico
Pamela Scheurer - Co-founder and CTO of Nubimetrics
Claudia Wilson - CEO at BeezStudio
The activity's recording is available at the Foundation's Youtube Channel.
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