Call for Papers: UNESCO Chair Special Session at VI LALICS International Conference 2025

The VI LALICS International Conference 2025 is ready to be a pivotal occasion within the dialogue of digitalization and synthetic intelligence (AI) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). As part of this esteemed gathering, the UNESCO Chair on “ST&I Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America” at the United Nations University UNU-MERIT is organizing a particular session titled “Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence: Developments and Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean.”

The world economic system has skilled an intensified era and application of information in current a long time, largely pushed by the diffusion of digital applied sciences. The fast developments in machine studying and neural networks have additional accelerated the event of AI, elevating discussions about its potential as the subsequent General-Purpose Technology (GPT). While AI presents important alternatives for innovation, productiveness, and financial progress, it additionally poses challenges, together with shifting energy dynamics between nations and financial actors.

For LAC, the place productiveness progress has been stagnant and companies and sectors exhibit sharp dualism, the mixing of digital applied sciences and AI holds immense transformative potential. However, digital adoption amongst LAC companies stays restricted and isn’t but totally built-in into productive processes. Understanding the area’s place in AI improvement and adoption is crucial to shaping efficient insurance policies that leverage these applied sciences for sustainable improvement.

Themes for Submission:

We invite the submission of full papers addressing, however not restricted to, the next themes:

• The affect of digital applied sciences on productiveness and labor markets
• The interaction of digitalization with nationwide programs of innovation
• The implications of digitalization and AI for energy relations amongst nations and between governments and enterprise actors
• Digitalization and structural change

Travel Award Competition:

To help rising students, a journey award competitors is open to:

• PhD college students enrolled in a Latin American establishment (no matter nationality)
• Early profession researchers affiliated with Latin American establishments who obtained their PhD after January 2022

The prize consists of reimbursement of precise journey and lodging prices as much as $1,500 for three chosen contributors.

Key Dates:

• Full Paper Submission Deadline: 25 April 2025
• Communication of Decisions: Between 20 and 27 June 2025

We encourage students and researchers to contribute to this crucial dialogue on digitalization and AI within the LAC area. For additional particulars, visit the official conference website.

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