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Women in the workplace: Does Latin America need its own #TimesUp movement?

Women empowerment has been the topic of 2017, paving positive changes towards gender equality in the workplace. Sparked by the womens’ march on Washington, and the Hollywood-Weinstein scandal, the #TimesUp movement, has opened up discussions, and actions, in the US over the under-representation, mistreatment and lack of opportunities for females in the workplace. “TIME’S UP is

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Cobuilding platform looks to Latin America for the next big exponential startup

In the age of hyper-connectivity, you don’t have to be in Palo Alto to develop the next world-changing algorithm. In an era of digital inclusion, where information and powerful technologies once available only to huge organizations become more accessible everyday, and no-name startups burst on the scene to compete with industry giants, the little guys

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Sunny in foggy times: IT in Latin America

Many North American companies consider Latin America as a region with high-performance software developing teams, able to compete with any region in the world in terms of best practices, quality and performance. Though there are also still some challenges.

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Central America and Caribbean Startups

Change the world, drink righteous-flavoured coffee

If not hindered by drought, plant diseases or other obstacles, the average coffee farmer makes a meagre $3/day. Luckily, some brave companies stand up to not only question but also change the rules of the game.

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Gender equality and food sovereignty growing hand in hand

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees, and in the past, Fair Trade has ineffectively tried to support farmers with gender equality. “If food sovereignty is to have an intellectual future within critical agrarian studies, it must reconcile the inherent contradictions of the ‘we are

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Beyond Fair Trade: What you need to know about LATAM’s AgTech shift

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers, working less than ten hectares of land, across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees. Sometimes the efforts of the complex Fair Trade network are complementary, but all too often they are contradictory in their guiding fair trade and financial standards. Regional competitions

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Central America and Caribbean Mexico Startups

Google offers a glimpse back to the first smartwatch, invented by the Mayans

For its new project “Preserving Maya Heritage,” Google ties up with the British Museum, using cutting-edge technology to show a collection of ancient Mayan artefacts, including the pre-Colombian version of Google’s smartwatch.

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PuenteLabs and IDB partner to help LATAM innovators make the leap to Silicon Valley

Not every startup gets a chance to pitch on Shark Tank and earn the education and investment available from those famous mentor-entrepreneurs.

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Central America and Caribbean

In November, Panama embraces entrepreneurship

Through a week-long, free-for-all series of events, the Panamanian government is unveiling a new policy aiming to improve the country’s entrepreneurial performance.

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Central America and Caribbean Startups

Tech entrepreneurship, innovation, apps in Cuba thrive in difficult ecosystem

In Cuba it is not easy being an entrepreneur, or a capitalist threat to a Marxist–Leninist regime, working mostly offline, moving information secretly in thumb drives, and surviving in an underserved and restricted environment.

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