Expert Panel: The Impacts of AI on Education
Artificial intelligence will magnify existing conditions in Latin American schools rather than fix them, and teachers, not technology, will determine the outcome. “The Impacts of AI in Education,” a webinar...
The Geography of 5G: Lessons from Alaska
For three decades, I have sat at the table with regulators in capitals such as Bogotá, Basseterre, London, and Seoul, and the conversation about rural connectivity almost always begins in...
How Mexico Fell Out of AT&T’s Plans
In January 2015, AT&T made its comeback bid to Mexico by completing its acquisition of Iusacell, allowing the U.S. giant to return to a market it had left first in...
Starlink Mobile Isn’t Built for the Global South
On October 8, SpaceX announced what appeared to be its next step in broadband connectivity and mobile access: ending its reliance on third parties and launching its own mobile service...
Connectivity in the Shadow of Armed Groups
Many people in the telecommunications industry first encountered the term “narco- and parasite- antennas” early this decade, when Reuters reported the story of a Mexican technician who, during routine work,...
Sensing Without Surveillance in the Global South
Many countries in the so-called Global South continue to expand their 4G mobile networks while seeing little need to deploy non-standalone 5G networks across much of their territory. Africa, for...
No Electricity, No Digital Education, No AI
Greek mythology treats lightning and electricity as divine gifts that connect the mortal world with the divine. Watching lightning meant witnessing Zeus's direct intervention in mortal affairs. Norse mythology, a...
Puerto Rico’s Averages Looked Fine. Its Mountains Were Not.
The benchmark trap, and what a decade of crisis has taught us about measuring digital development For almost thirty years, I’ve made the same argument about Puerto Rico. I made...
Why Aren’t There More Telecom Operators? Ten Years Later, the Answer Is Fewer.
In October 2015, I published a column in Spanish that tried to answer a question I kept hearing across Latin America. If information and communications technologies are so important to...
Mexico’s Foreign Investment Law Reform
Reviewing investments that could compromise a country’s critical infrastructure, data, or strategic technologies is common worldwide. The United States does so through its Committee on Foreign Investment, created by Executive...
