The Uruguayan scientist Rafael Radi received the 2016 Mexico Science and Technology Award (Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología), one of the most important scientific awards in Ibero-America. This distinction granted by Mexico’s president is given since 1990 “to a person of recognized professional prestige who has made a significant contribution to universal scientific knowledge [...]
According to the 2016 Uruguayan Internet-User Profile, eight among ten Uruguayans are internet users and the digital divide is declining in the different segments of the population. Without smartphones, mobile internet or social networks. If you close your eyes and imagine you are in the beginning of the 2000 decade, you would find a world [...]
Óscar Washington Tabárez, coach of the Uruguayan national team is presently the first on the list of football coaches with most games that have managed one national team. With Uruguay’s last match against Chile on November 15 for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, he reaches the record hold by Sepp Herberger (167) and Morten [...]
Uruguayan foreign affairs minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa concluded a visit to South Korea, where he agreed with his counterpart Yun Byung-se to promote negotiations about a free-trade area agreement (FTA) between the Asian country and the Mercosur bloc. The South Korean chancellor asked Nin to “play a key role” at trying to promote a dialogue [...]
The new sectoral brand Logistic Uruguay was officially presented, which now joins the country brand Uruguay Natural, with the strength of a thriving sector and a strategic partner in the task of positioning our country in the world. The brand was promoted by Instituto Uruguay XXI in coordination with the National Institute of Logistics (INALOG). [...]
Accompanied by a large delegation of ministers, businessmen and union leaders Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez concluded an historic visit to China, which included diverse treaties and the study of a China-Uruguay free trade agreement. Uruguayan President Tabaré Vazquez made a twelve-day visit with ministers to several Chinese cities, which included meetings with Beijing leading officials [...]
A better performance in entrepreneurship human capital, cultural conditions and public policies explains the improvement. Uruguay is ranked in the fourth place at a regional level and 39 in a global level in the Systemic Conditions for Dynamic Entrepreneurship ranking, made by the Entrepreneur Development Program (Prodem) of the General Sarmiento University (Argentina). This report, [...]
Vívela offers touristic suggestions outside the classic circuits. Tourism has changed. Visitors no longer want to meet only the classic monuments or historic sites, but to live new experiences and to know places trough local eyes. At least this is what believes Gonzalo Vega one of the creators of Vívela, an app that aims to [...]
It is the first time a company wins in two categories. After the new Antel Data Center “Ing. José Luis Massera” got the very demanding UPTIME INSTITUTE certificates in design and construction it received two important international awards from the DCD (Data Center Dynamics) Latam Awards in a ceremony held in Mexico City. The CDC [...]
The list of innovators under 35 “who could revolutionize the world”, made every year by the MIT Technology Review –Mark Zuckerberg was part in 2007- recognized three Uruguayans: Alejandro Esperanza (Gurucargo), Lucía Spangenberg (GenLives) and Marcelo Wilkorwsky (Oincs). Almost 150 candidates were nominated in the Argentina and Uruguay edition of the poll, but only 10 [...]
After the success of apps like Pedidos Ya, Paganza and Bullet Boy, other local applications arise. When talking about domestic industry, software is often placed in the last position. But, Uruguay is become in the last years a technological pole and a developer of software and applications, not only meant for the local market. A [...]
Corruption perception is 6% in the judicial system, 38% in the political parties and 50% in the Police, says a survey among company executives. In Brazil, hundreds of companies and impresarios where involved in corruption scandals that also reached the highest government positions, including the suspension of president Dilma Rousseff. Other massive scale investigations about [...]
