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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some would say that many Latin American public officials entertain a very seductive idea about digital sovereignty: that a law or decree is all it takes to impose it. Yet...
Over the past twelve months, Washington, DC, has adopted three immigration measures that, in the long term, may prove counterproductive for the United States. First, it imposes a $100,000 fee...
