Fiber-To-The-Home Panorama for Latin America 2024

The FTTH Panorama for Latin America 2024 report highlights significant growth in fiber optic deployment across the region. By the end of 2023, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) reached 67 million FTTH subscribers, representing 37% of households, with coverage expanding to 67% of homes. 

The report projects continued growth, estimating 101 million subscribers and 83% coverage by 2028. Key trends include increasing network overlap in urban areas, rising from 1.6 to an expected 1.8 by 2028, driving competition and service quality improvements. 

This new report of SmC+ produced for the Fiber Broadband Association Latam Chapter highlights fiber industry achievements and challenges ahead.

iber Neutral Networks in Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges

Neutral FTTH networks are emerging as an important vehicle for expanding fiber optic coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean. This infrastructure sharing model allows multiple ISPs to use the same fiber network deployed and maintained by a neutral operator (NHN). The most relevant cases currently are found in Brazil, Chile and Colombia, where companies like V.tal, On Net and Ufinet are leading the development of these networks. 

The success of the model depends on finding an economic balance that benefits both NHNs and tenant ISPs, as well as overcoming existing regulatory and market barriers in the region.

Assessing the Data Governance models in the public sector: the cases of Bogotá, Buenos Aires, México City and São Paulo

This study commissioned by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America continues on the work program that assess the progress of four key Latin American Cities: Bogotá, Buenos Aires, México City and São Paulo in the path to incorporate new digital technologies that can made them become "smarter". 

Deep dives into the institutional aspects of data governance looking into organizational, interoperability, regulatory and data integration issues. 

Fiber and investment growth challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

This report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recalls on the significant progress made in the fiber and fiber-to-the-home deployment in Latin America and the challenges that lie ahead.

We created a model to estimate how market gaps could be solved with barrier reduction, through smart subsidies on supply (increasing coverage) and stimulating coordination (more public-private partnerships) and also, stimulating demand (increasing access). The results show that taking coverage beyond the expected 81% for 2030, which is considered as a possible ceiling for the region, through smart policies could increase coverage to 86%, and would allow subscriptions to reach a more than proportional penetration of 67%. 

A responsible approach for new digital technologies in Latin America

A report commissioned by the Salesforce Latin America that looks into the new approaches to develop and regulate digital technologies that are on everybody's mouth these days like artificial intelligence (IA). 

Proposes a customized narrative for the region that needs to leverage its tradition and existing rules on Human Rights that are today contained in the Inter-American system. It also provides examples to make principles a day-to-day guide for developing new digital products. 

The importance of modernizing IT public procurement for the State digital transformation

This study analyzes the procurement practices of Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay with a comparative view trying to identify the stylized facts current IT purchasing rules. 

The white paper defines some good guiding practices for the public acquisition of technology e.g. definition of framework agreements that allow aggregation, the value of fostering supplier neutrality and an innovation ecosystem, as well as international cooperation among others.

A Digital Economy Manifesto for Latam leading platforms

Developed for the Latin American Internet Association (ALAI) we produced a set of principles that reached internal consensus among its member and then was adopted by 14 regional Internet and e-commerce association in 10 countries.

Towards a comprehensive agenda for the adoption of technologies for learning 4.0 in Latin America

SmC+ education team delivered a comprehensive assessment on how regional countries are handling with hybrid education models and leveraging the need of introducing technologies in their education programs.

Made for Intel, CAF Development Bank and C4IR.CO, was presented to national education authorities in October 2021. 

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Developing skills for the future: Five disruptive technologies and their educational uses: Artificial intelligence | Robotics | Virtual and augmented reality | Intelligent tutoring systems | Gamification

SmC+ education team delivered another key report on the Skills needed and progresses made with five disruptive technologies in education.

Made for the Global Apprentice Network (GAN) and the Industrial Union of Argentina (UIA), reviews the progress made and the key elements at play with these technologies.

Cloud computing: The road towards governmental digital transformation in Latin America

New expert insight by Facundo Rattel, an ICT expert that made an assessment on how much southern cone governments could save by migrating to the cloud. 

Facundo was part of Bluenote Management Consulting team that produced an extensive IDB report on Government Cloud Ecosystems in the Southern Cone published in July 2020

The governance of digital transformation in Latin America

SmC+ CEO, Sebastian Cabello, presents a comprehensive review of current policymaking and regulatory challenges for digital transformation both of public and private.

This report was produced for the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and served as a base for the "Tecnologías digitales para un nuevo futuro" report published in April 2021 by UN ECLAC.