Thursday, December 07, 2017

Latin America highlights need for Convergence Law

“La Convención Azul” first edition in Latin America left room to debate the quality of regulatory frameworks and contrasted the path of regulating by decree driven by the Argentine government against the decision of other right-wing governments, such as Mexican, Brazilian and Colombian, to think about a comprehensive reform for the ICT sector.

In the run-up to the 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which will begin this weekend in Buenos Aires, the first edition of La Convención Azul was held in Latin America. The event was organized by the "think tank" New Direction - made up of 36 conservative parties from the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Poland, Turkey and the Netherlands, among other entities - and was attended by AT&T, Telecom, Globant and the HSBC bank, among other companies.

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