We close the first quarter of 2025 with the publication of edition 58 of our newsletter DeCLARA, the first of this year full of challenges and opportunities. In this edition, we highlight significant advancements in technology and international collaboration, reflecting RedCLARA's ongoing commitment to innovation, cooperation, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In response to the accelerating rise in CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent) emissions and the urgent need to eliminate six billion tons annually to avoid irreversible climate damage, LACNet—the largest public and permissioned blockchain network in Latin America and the Caribbean—has launched a call for participation in the “Innovating for a Carbon-Neutral Future” Hackathon. This global initiative aims to develop technological solutions that transform the carbon market and accelerate climate action.
The D4D Hub (Digital for Development Hub), in collaboration with the EU-LAC Digital Alliance and under the framework of Global Gateway, will hold a workshop focused on digital investments and cybersecurity. The event aims to strengthen digital cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and will take place on April 9 and 10, 2025, at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Brazil's experience in supercomputing and its impact on research and innovation served as a source of inspiration for the second session of the Call for Ideas, organized by the SPIDER project and RedCLARA. This initiative aims to stimulate the development of proposals, projects, prototypes, and collaborative ventures that leverage the BELLA project, fostering the collaborative generation of initiatives between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Building technological solutions based on successful initiatives already implemented—remedies that can complement each other while fostering new, scalable, and locally adaptable proposals with a regional approach that promotes cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders—is essential to addressing development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Santiago de Chile will be the epicenter of one of the most important meetings for development in Latin America and the Caribbean: the Annual Meeting of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest), the IDB’s private sector area.
