Country: Uruguay

MATEC is the educational project for teacher training and support that promotes an innovative teaching methodology to enhance the learning of mathematics through technology. It was created in response to the declining performance in mathematics, the low inclusion of technology in classroom practices and the need for new tools to personalise student learning and meet the challenge of diversity in the classroom.

ANII, in collaboration with the private sector and the support of Uruguay's Ministry of Health, is piloting a novel Open Innovation Initiative (MH2030). Ageing populations and rising numbers of people with multiple chronic diseases are placing an increasing burden on health systems. There is a need for improving healthcare by fostering an innovative environment. Through this new co-creative approach, local entrepreneurs work collaboratively with partnering healthcare institutions to tailor and…

Organisation: Other

The initiative is about the automation in the classification of service desk requests using AI techniques such as Natural Language Processing and open source tools to reduce the costs, optimize resources and improve response times in benefit of the citizens and the public institutions as service providers. The solution is developed by AGESIC (E-Government and Information and Knowledge Society Agency); this is an algorithm based solution in charge of classifying topics on different categories of…

The solution generates a controlled virtual environment quite similar to real evacuation and emergency situations. It seeks to train "Brigadistas" (first response agents) in change of guiding the evacuation of the people from each building while ensuring the bindingness to the protocol and safety measures in case of emergency. The innovation was trialed in an evacuation mock-up in the Presidency building.

PROJECT SUMMARY Text messages were delivered to parents of children from 3 to 5 years old enrolled in public preschools in Uruguay using a government mobile app. These messages targeted malleable factors producing students’ absences and sought to influence parent’s attitudes and beliefs about preschool attendance to increase children’s presence in the classroom. IMPACT Children in remote areas increased attendance by 1.5 days, suggesting an increase in cognitive development of 0.20 SD.…

Institution: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Team: IDB Behavioral Economics Group

1. Multichannel Uruguay implemented a comprehensive and multi-channel digital strategy to face the coronavirus pandemic, with the aim of reaching different segments of the population with all the necessary information, without congesting face-to-face services and telephone communication, and especially facilitating patient care and monitoring patients with symptoms. This strategy enabled the following channels to be available simultaneously: Toll Free Number, WhatsApp, Chatbot, Mobile…

1. Multichannel Uruguay implemented a comprehensive and multi-channel digital strategy to face the coronavirus pandemic. Taking advantage of the Salud.uy (National Digital Health Record) already available and integrating other tools to to strengthen the way of having / accessing information. 2. Gub.uy In the framework of a strategy to facilitate access to information, continuously, accessible and through a process that is transparent to the entire population, the government's web resources and…