Felipe Diaz

Facultad de Ingeniería- Universidad de Chile

It proposes the creation of a natural carbon sink explorer, which in the future will make it possible to select a geographical area and evaluate how much CO2 is absorbed annually by the vegetation, information that is relevant for assessing the impact of investment projects in forests and wetlands. Online satellite information will be used to quantify the CO2 absorbed by our ecosystems.

This research is being developed in collaboration with the Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA). The goal is to make this method of quantifying CO2 sinks official for the whole of Chile and to improve the transparency of the evaluation, i.e. to make it open to civil society, companies and the state.

Fabiola Wust

Instituto de Estudios Internacionales - Universidad de Chile

This study aims to analyze the intellectual property policies – in matters of patents, computer programs and trademarks - of international technical standardization bodies, observing the measures applied with the purpose of promoting the adequate adoption of international technical standards that incorporate technologies protected by intellectual property rights in their technical specifications.

Raul Herrera

Universidad de Tarapacá

This project will develop a web-based system to support the development of risk management plans specifically designed for technology-based organizations, including both emerging and established entrepreneurs, as well as micro and small start-up companies.

The main objective of this platform is to increase the probability of success in launching new software products. To this end, it integrates various support tools, such as expert advice, collaborative functionalities and risk management mechanisms that accompany the entire development process.

The platform has been built using modern web technologies and developed using an agile methodology inspired by SCRUM. It has been successfully validated in a real environment within a local software development company, demonstrating its effectiveness and applicability as a risk management tool in real technological innovation contexts.

Patricia Peña

Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile | Financiamiento f<A+I>r

This project is a prototype of an information and guidance system for situations of digital gender-based violence (GBV) in Chile.

Teresa Matus

FONDEF ID17I10033

The project emerges as an innovative response to the challenges faced by child care systems in Chile, in a context of organizational and regulatory reform. It has been shown that periods of crisis and uncertainty create opportunities for the implementation of substantial improvements. Within this framework, the project seeks to address the lack of timely response of national child care services and programs to deficiencies in care, risks to children in care, lack of coordination among services, uneven levels of training among work teams, and scarce information available to families. It also identifies deficiencies in key decision-making, delays in making critical adjustments, and the lack of effective mechanisms for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of public investment in these programs.

As a solution, the project is developing an early warning prototype and a Multidimensional Effectiveness Index (MEI) integrated into a smart connectivity technology platform. Its purpose is to optimize decision making and strengthen the responsiveness of childhood programs.

Among its specific objectives are the conceptual design of the prototype, based on national and international experience in early warning systems (EWS); the modeling of a system of sensitive indicators for evaluating program effectiveness; the construction of the MEI as a comprehensive measurement tool; the validation and training in the use of the prototype in different social programs; and the development of a digital platform that is accessible and adaptable to different institutional contexts.

Teresa Matus

FONDEF ID17I10033

The project emerges as an innovative response to the challenges faced by child care systems in Chile, in a context of organizational and regulatory reform. It has been shown that periods of crisis and uncertainty create opportunities for the implementation of substantial improvements. Within this framework, the project seeks to address the lack of timely response of national child care services and programs to deficiencies in care, risks to children in care, lack of coordination among services, uneven levels of training among work teams, and scarce information available to families. It also identifies deficiencies in key decision-making, delays in making critical adjustments, and the lack of effective mechanisms for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of public investment in these programs.

As a solution, the project is developing an early warning prototype and a Multidimensional Effectiveness Index (MEI) integrated into a smart connectivity technology platform. Its purpose is to optimize decision making and strengthen the responsiveness of childhood programs.

Among its specific objectives are the conceptual design of the prototype, based on national and international experience in early warning systems (EWS); the modeling of a system of sensitive indicators for evaluating program effectiveness; the construction of the MEI as a comprehensive measurement tool; the validation and training in the use of the prototype in different social programs; and the development of a digital platform that is accessible and adaptable to different institutional contexts.

Fabian Duarte

Facultad de Economía y Negocios | Universidad de Chile

Breast cancer is a significantly important disease worldwide. In 2008, there were 12.7 million cancer cases with 7.6 million deaths, of which 23% and 14%, respectively, were breast cancer.1 In Chile, breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among women2 and is the second leading cause of death.

This research estimates the effect of a direct mail campaign that uses insights from behavioral economics on mammography screenings among women aged 50 years or older. Our main contribution was to test several messages based on different behavioral barriers. The behavioral economics provides a framework to understand heuristic behind human behavior, applying psychology into the economic decision-making study. Several studies have reported how a person can be encouraged to behave in a certain way, simply by supplying incentives in a strategic manner to correct biases or address the barriers in the cost-benefit decision problem.

Dante Contreras

COES, Facultad de Economía, Universidad de Chile | Financiamiento: Programa de Cooperación Internacional (PCI), CONICYT

CHILMOD is a tax and transfer microsimulation model based on the EROMOD software used in the European Union. It allows researchers and policy analysts to generate comparative estimates of the impact of different tax and benefit policy scenarios on poverty, inequality and government revenues, and to support decision making.