During the month of November, representatives of the CILA consortium traveled to Rio de Janeiro in order to promote the innovation agenda in that city. Through meetings with members of the Rio de Janeiro City Hall and civil society organizations, CILA was able to present the CILA community and promote articulations in order to generate […]
The Uruguayan NGO Tagma built the first 100% sustainable school in the province of Buenos Aires. Made from recycled materials, it maintains a stable temperature without the need for artifi cial heating or cooling. It is also supplied with solar energy and river water.
In the context of a deep crisis of representativeness and closure of civic space, 9 Latin American countries are going through elections in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, only 48% support democracies in the region: this means a drop of 15 percentage points in relation to the 63% registered in 2010. In addition, 28% expressed […]
How can we talk about innovation? Is it easy to innovate? Is it possible to work for innovation for participation among academic entities and institutions?
In election years, when society’s attention is focused on the political future of the country, province or city, an in-depth analysis of previous governmental administrations is inevitable. Attention is focused on evaluating the fulfillment of campaign promises and examining the degree of accountability of elected leaders. The great challenge for governments lies in maintaining the […]
CILA is supporting the development of the Local Lab in Bogota. Its objective is to apply methodologies that generate trust and citizen empowerment around local and city problems and citizen participation through the creation of scalable, replicable and sustainable prototypes, in order to shorten the distance between citizens and district institutions. In this way, democratic […]
It’s not about infrastructure, the important thing is that citizens feel happy in their territories: it’s called ‘social urbanism’.
Sobral, in the state of Ceará, one of Brazil’s poorest, has achieved an educational revolution. In 2000, half of the students there were eight years old when they did not understand what they were reading, but today that percentage has been reduced to zero. The focus was on teacher training, rigorous evaluations of educational quality […]
Two years ago, the municipality launched a digital management platform that functions as a communication channel between the government and citizens, thanks to which 81% of more than 300,000 neighborhood requests have been resolved. However, civil society organizations claim that the use of these technological resources does not yet promote a real participation of all […]
The challenges of governance in Latin America are numerous and complex, especially when considering the high levels of distrust, disaffection and frustration that citizens experience towards their institutions. According to the Latinobarómetro 2020 survey, only 20% of Latin Americans trust their political institutions, and according to the United Nations Program, the average level of trust […]
