How should we envision a Latin American city of the future? An AS/COA panel explored the answer by focusing on plans for Guadalajara’s Ciudad Creativa Digital, a world-class center for audiovisual, digital, and interactive production.

A new legal framework promising tax breaks is attracting tablet producers to set up shop in Brazil, where costs and bureaucracy historically limited high-tech business.

Mexico is emerging as a capital of Latin America’s growing information technology outsourcing industry as tech entrepreneurs flock to Guadalajara's Centro del Software project—an “incubator” for small-scale tech start-ups.

Brazil’s Science without Borders program is a $3 billion initiative to promote educational exchanges in science and technology. AS/COA Online learned more about the program from Dr. Glaucius Oliva, the president of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

"From elections in Brazil to mapping power in Chile to a stand-in for Wikipedia in the United States, journalists throughout the Americas are using crowdsourcing to cover the news," writes Summer Harlow of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, referring to AS/COA Online's recent article on Latin American crowdsourcing.

Across Latin America, innovative crowdsourcing websites are shining a light on security, health, and consumer concerns.