scholarly journals Preface

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Gastón Lefranc Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Program ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
And Robotics

<p>It is an honor for me to introduce you a list of papers selected from the XVI Congress of ACCA (Asociación Chilena de Control Automático, Chilean Association of Automatic Control), done in Santiago of Chile at the end of 2004, in its 30 years of existence.<br /> Since 1974, ACCA organize Congress (every 2 years), Tutorial Courses for continuing education, Seminars, Workshops, Exposition of Systems and Equipments and our Magazine Automatica and Innovation. All of these activities have results: important influence in all ambits, consolidating to ACCA as a point of meeting of people from industries, from private and public institutions, from the academics world, from suppliers of systems and equipments, and professional from all Latin America . In 1976, ACCA had its first Program Committee to select papers, and its first Proceedings.<br /> This Congress was organized by ACCA, IEEE Chilean Chapter on Control, Robotics and Cybernetics, IFAC and its Technical Committees, and the Universidad de Las Américas, Chile. ACCA is NMO of IFAC since 1984.<br /> ACCA Congress had Keynotes Speakers for Plenary: Dr. François Vernadat from France, Dr. Florin Filip from Romania, Dr. Shimon Nof from USA and Dr. Philippe Dupont, from France. A Round Table was organised to discuss about productivity, interested in Chile and Latin American professionals. The 46 accepted papers selected by the International Program Committee, were presented in Technical Sessions where new ideas, critical comments, and the beginning of cooperation leading to future projects will take place. The papers come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and México. The International Program Committee selected 10 papers as the best of this Congress, to be published in “International Journal of Computers, Communications &amp; Control”. The papers are in areas of artificial intelligence, vision, manufacturing, pattern recognition and robotics.<br /> ACCA wants to say thanks to Dr. Florin Filip to permit to show the activities in Chile and Latin America, oriented to improve and to solve our own problems.<br /> It is pleasure to introduce you to this Special Issue Conference dedicated to ACCA in its 30 years.</p>

scholarly journals Investigación sobre aborto en América Latina y el Caribe. Una agenda renovada para informar políticas públicas e incidencia (resumen ejecutivo) / Research on Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Renewed Agenda to Inform Public Policy and Advocacy (executive summary)

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvina Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
America Latina

El tema del aborto en la región latinoamericana ha venido ocupando un lugar importante y creciente en el quehacer académico, el debate público y, en particular, en las agendas y políticas públicas desde hace más de dos décadas. La excelente y reciente publicación del Consorcio Latinoamericano contra el Aborto Inseguro (clacai), Investigación sobre aborto en América Latina y el Caribe. Una agenda renovada para informar políticas públicas e incidencia, cuyo resumen ejecutivo se presenta a continuación, nos ofrece un conocimiento riguroso y sólido de la evidencia científica de que se dispone en la región sobre este tema en el periodo de 2009 al 2014; con base en éste, nos propone los ejes temáticos prioritarios que deben ser indagados en el futuro inmediato. Sin duda esta publicación representa un insumo altamente valorizado que contribuye a comprender y difundir la situación del aborto en la región, sus causas, las consecuencias y los obstáculos que las mujeres enfrentan en su decisión de interrumpir su embarazo, así como las posturas de los diversos actores sociales que están a favor o en contra de la despenalización del aborto y las acciones que en los ámbitos institucionales, privados y públicos, influyen y participan en este proceso; dichos aspectos también están presentes en el debate público en numerosos países de otras regiones.AbstractThe issue of abortion in Latin America has occupied an increasingly important place in academic work and public debate, particularly in agendas and public policies, for over two decades. The recent excellent publication by the Latin American Consortium against Unsafe Abortion (clacai), Investigación sobre aborto en América Latina y el Caribe. Una agenda renovada para informar políticas públicas e incidencia, whose executive summary is presented below, provides a detailed account of the scientific evidence available in the region on this topic in the period from 2009 to 2014. On the basis of the latter, it proposes thematic priorities that should be investigated in the near future. This publication is an extremely valuable input that contributes to understanding and disseminating the status of abortion in the region, its causes and consequences and the obstacles women face in their decision to terminate their pregnancies. It also details the positions of the various stakeholders for or against the legalization of abortion and actions in the institutional, private and public spheres that influence and participate in this process. These aspects are also present in the public debate in many countries in other regions. 

scholarly journals Latin American perspectives on datafication and artificial intelligence: Traditions, interventions and possibilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emiliano Treré ◽  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Multiple Languages

This introductory essay illustrates the context, clarifies the relevance, and outlines the key themes of this Special Issue on “Latin American Perspectives on Datafication and Artificial intelligence”. It starts pointing out that so far, the engagement of Latin American scholarship in the exploration of data technologies and the rise of intelligent systems has been limited. However, it is argued, Latin American traditions in both research and praxis have much to offer to our understanding of the evolution of the information ecosystem. We propose to map different Latin American perspectives on datafication and AI using an analytical matrix structured along two theme lines, that is three building blocks (infrastructure, imaginaries, practices) and three interpretative lenses (decoloniality and race, feminist theory, pluriversal thinking). Then, we reflect on two procedural issues: the need to consider this Special Issue as a conversation-starter, and the importance of having this conversation in multiple languages and in an open access format. We conclude providing an outline of the various contributions of the Special Issue. Authors address algorithms from the south and coloniality, datafication and corruption, data activism, AI and journalism, and platform labor in the context of Latin America and drawing on Latin American theoretical contributions

scholarly journals Special issue: Logistics systems design in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
Miguel Gaston Cedillo Campos ◽  
Juan Carlos Villa
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Latin American Region ◽  
Geographical Dispersion

Logistics systems have a strategic importance for Latin American competitiveness. During the last decades, geographical dispersion of industrial and service processes supported by logistics progresses allowed Latin American companies to be part of the global value chains.Economic difficulties in the Latin American region and the increasing protectionism and nationalism in some developed countries have led to uncertainty and greater interest to develop regional markets and to strengthen a more diverse market base.Under this context, this Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) gathers nine significant contributions, which from a Latin American approach, enhance the logistics systems body of knowledge focused on emerging markets.

scholarly journals Preface to the Best Papers from CLEI 2013 Special Issue

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Aguilar ◽  
Jaelson Castro ◽  
Sergio España ◽  
Alexandra La Cruz ◽  
María Villapol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Revision Process ◽  
The Chairs ◽  
Selection Of

This special issue of the CLEI Electronic Journal consists of extended and revised versions of a selection of the best papers presented at the XXXIX Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2013), which took place in October 2013 in Naiguatá, Venezuela. The editors for this special issue were the chairs of the symposia from CLEI 2013 where these papers have been selected, plus the general chair of the program committee, which have participated in the selection and revision process

scholarly journals Overseas influences on the development and recent innovations on public sector accounting and finance in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino ◽  
Eugenio Caperchione ◽  
Ricardo Lopes Cardoso ◽  
Ileana Steccolini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Public Sector Accounting

Abstract The idea for this special issue was to contribute to the international literature on public sector accounting from a Latin-American perspective, exploring which forces influence Public Sector Accounting and Finance (PSA&F) artifacts and concepts in Latin America, and how they occur. There is evidence that later influences from countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand played a role in PSA&F developments in Latin-America. However, the roots and the associated effects (e.g., recent innovations, resistances, decoupling) of PSA&F are still unanswered questions. Such ‘recent innovations’ on public financial management processes include but are not limited to accrual accounting, convergence towards IPSAS, risk assessment, auditing, and budgeting. This special issue contains four articles capturing different perspectives of influences and mechanisms of PSA&F in the region.

scholarly journals Higher education reforms: Latin America in comparative perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Bernasconi ◽  
Sergio Celis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Higher Education Reforms ◽  
Latin American Region

This article introduces a special issue of EPAA/AAPE devoted to recent higher education reforms in Latin America. The last two decades have seen much policy development in higher education in the region, examined and discussed by scholars in each country, but dialog with the international literature on higher education reform, or an explicit comparative focus, have been mostly absent from these works. By way of presentation of the papers included in this issue, we first provide an overview of major policy changes in higher education in the Latin American region since the 1990s. We then turn to the six works in this special issue to describe the theories and methods supporting them. Next, we illustrate how general analytic categories can be derived from single or multi country case studies to illuminate themes capable of cutting across the particulars of national contexts, with their unique traditions, policy paths, and politics. Our three common threads are, first, the types of drivers for reform, that is, how policy change originates, either bottom-up from the institutions, or top-down from the government, and various possibilities in between. Second, understanding challenges to institutional autonomy in a continuum of intensity of state intended intervention in higher education. Third, explaining different levels of strain between public and private sectors in higher education based on conditions of competition for economic resources. While the papers in this special issue do not cover all countries, nor all issues on which policy has been crafted in the last two decades across the region, the collection of articles herein account for topics of enduring importance: faculty work in Ecuador, financial aid in Colombia, public policy decentralization in Argentina, quality assurance models in Colombia and Uruguay, the emerge of new institutions and universities in Argentina and Uruguay, and social justice, access, and inclusion in higher education, in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador. The articles presented in this special issue provide much insight onto higher education policy in Latin America and, additionally, offer ample opportunity to develop social science knowledge on the basis of strong comparative work.

Image, power and peripheries: Current perspectives on Latin American studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Miguel E. Vásquez R
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Philosophy Of Communication ◽  
The Way

This is an introduction to the Special Issue of Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication focused on Latin American studies. The articles collected here were meticulously selected in light of previous discussions and conferences about Latin America that took place over the past year. The contributors transversally analyse several issues in current Latin American studies, particularly those related to philosophy, art, literature and visual studies. They propose alternative readings of Latin America taking into account its singularity and the way in which traditional categories such as representation, power, modernity or gender, among others, are implicitly and explicitly used and criticized.

scholarly journals Influências estrangeiras no desenvolvimento e inovações recentes em contabilidade e finanças do setor público na América Latina

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino ◽  
Eugenio Caperchione ◽  
Ricardo Lopes Cardoso ◽  
Ileana Steccolini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Public Sector Accounting ◽  
America Latina

Abstract The idea for this special issue was to contribute to the international literature on public sector accounting from a Latin-American perspective, exploring which forces influence Public Sector Accounting and Finance (PSA&F) artifacts and concepts in Latin America, and how they occur. There is evidence that later influences from countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand played a role in PSA&F developments in Latin-America. However, the roots and the associated effects (e.g., recent innovations, resistances, decoupling) of PSA&F are still unanswered questions. Such ‘recent innovations’ on public financial management processes include but are not limited to accrual accounting, convergence towards IPSAS, risk assessment, auditing, and budgeting. This special issue contains four articles capturing different perspectives of influences and mechanisms of PSA&F in the region.

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