Good morning all,

I am working now at martel Innovate and we do EU and other kind of projects.

One project I am in is IndiCo Global. There are Open Calls:

InDiCo-Global will provide € 1.000.000 of funding to promote European digital/ICT standards in target countries/regions (African Union, China, Eastern Partnership, India, Latin America and Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Western Balkans), building bridges across technical communities.

We have a webinar on April 22 where three Open call projects present:
https://indico-global.eu/events/

See also:

https://indico-global-grants.eu

We have very interesting projects now in operation in for example Bolivia, Guatemala, Chile. They will present on April 22 (Chile will be later) There is another project on Africa.

There will be a second Open Call and I will alert you to that.

This is an example:

The Enhancing Digital Government in Guatemala through European Standards project focuses on aligning Guatemala’s digital governance framework with European ICT standards in open data, interoperability, and digital accessibility. The project directly supports the objectives by fostering international cooperation, facilitating knowledge exchange, and strengthening the adoption of standardized ICT frameworks in the region.

Our project, Fostering Data Protection and Responsible AI Compliance in Bolivia, seeks to bridge this gap by promoting data protection standards based on international best practices, particularly the GDPR and the European AI Act. We aim to raise awareness and provide practical tools for small businesses, universities, and organizations to implement responsible data governance.

Chile: There have been several advocacy efforts that led to the drafting of a data protection regulation, even the Government has advanced in its own draft bill, but its approval and implementation remains pending due to polarization in the Congress and disinformation about the issue. In the absence of a legal framework, data breaches and the informal sale of personal databases are common, and citizens have limited recourse against such violations.

Greetings, Rob