Overview
Internship supporting the Digital Development Observatory (DDO) of ECLAC by reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing policy documents related to artificial intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and collect national artificial intelligence strategies, digital transformation agendas, regulatory initiatives, governance frameworks and other relevant public policy documents related to AI in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Analyze selected documents and prepare concise summaries highlighting their objectives, institutional arrangements, priority areas, implementation mechanisms and links with broader digital transformation and development agendas.
- Systematize the information collected in a clear and comparable format, allowing differences and commonalities across countries to be identified.
- Identify the main areas addressed by AI policies in the region, including governance, regulation, ethics, data, infrastructure, skills, innovation, public-sector use, productive transformation and social inclusion.
- Support the identification of common approaches, emerging policy trends, areas of convergence and gaps in national AI policy development.
- Assist in developing categories, tables or analytical inputs that allow the Observatory to present AI policy information in a structured and accessible manner.
- Prepare short analytical inputs, country summaries, thematic descriptions or other substantive content to be considered for publication on the DDO website.
- Support the review, update or production of indicators, datasets or analytical materials related to artificial intelligence policy development in the region.
- Review and incorporate, where relevant, analytical inputs and knowledge products previously produced by ECLAC on digital transformation, artificial intelligence and development.
- Keep a structured repository of reviewed documents, summaries, sources and analytical notes.
- Participate in coordination meetings and provide inputs to ECLAC staff on progress, findings and emerging issues identified during the review process.
- Contribute to the preparation of a final synthesis document or set of materials summarizing the main findings of the internship.
Required Experience
Experience in digital economy measurement: Experience in the design or assessment of indicators, diagnostic frameworks, measurement systems, policy methodologies or evidence-based policy tools related to digital transformation, digital economy or development policy. Policy and strategy development: Experience analyzing national or regional policy processes, particularly in digital transformation, innovation, productive development, statistics, regulatory policy or public sector modernization.
Qualifications
- be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent).
- be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher)
- A first-level university degree in Public Policy, Statistics, Development Economics, Digital Economy, Social Sciences, Research Methods, Data Science for Policy, or a related quantitative/analytical field is required.
