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<strong>EL</strong> <strong>SALVADOR</strong> Above: Kids show off their tickets to the free movie. Opposite page: Salvadoran government forces disembark from a troop carrier in the Salvadoran capital during fierce fighting with insurgents during a bloody guerrilla offensive in 1989. nential technologies can enable a future in which the basic needs of every man, woman and child are met. This struck a chord, because somehow I didn’t feel like this has happened for El Salvador. Perhaps my view has been affected by my disappointment with how governments have dealt so poorly with reducing violence, educating our population and advancing our competitiveness as a nation. So I and a group of like-minded millennials started Estadio Ventures: the first innovation lab in the country to try to address our most pressing problems, including gang violence through violence prevention initiatives. We want to engage some of El Salvador’s brightest young minds in an isolated environment that rewards creativity and risk-taking by combining an innovation lab, accelerator and a co-working space. Within our lab we experiment with a variety of commercially available exponential technologies including robotics, virtual reality, sensors, 3D printing and artificial intelligence. The promise of these technologies is that they eventually become democratized, widely distributed at a low cost. We are placing a bet that Its small territorial extension, the smallest country in the continental Americas, combined with a high population density, makes it the ideal real-world laboratory for creative out-of-the box thinking and testing breakthrough ideas from which we can expand to neighboring countries and regions these trends will continue, while we build innovative solutions around these technologies to tackle some of our region’s most pressing problems. I was fortunate enough to be selected for this year’s World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, where the central topic was “the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” which suggests that these ideas and technologies may finally be getting the mainstream attention they deserve. Solving our global society’s most pressing problems requires our perception of adversity to shift from a predominantly pessimistic outlook to one of optimism. Indeed, El Salvador is traversing one of the worst crises in its history. It is our calling to youth to propagate hope, to restore in older—and younger—generations the capacity to dream, and to foster collaboration—so we may rebuild—a social tissue which has inherited inequality, hatred, and political polarization. As entrepreneurs we must wield the tools of exponential technologies to imagine and build a future where all basic needs are met. If within each crisis lies opportunity, El Salvador is a veritable gold mine. Its small territorial extension, the smallest country in the continental Americas, combined with a high population density, makes it the ideal real-world laboratory for creative out-of-the-box thinking and testing breakthrough ideas from which we can expand to neighboring countries and regions. We millennials may be an idealistic bunch. Perhaps we are entitled, perhaps delusional, perhaps we haven’t had a taste of “reality” yet. But perhaps we also just happen to instinctively know the potential of technology and have the passion to shape the future. Time will tell. Whatever the case, I believe it is time to act. Indeed, we are lucky to be alive during this most exciting time. The computer science pioneer Alan Kay said it best: the best way to predict the future is to invent it. We are committed to improving the state of El Salvador, Latin America and (maybe, hopefully) the world. Federico J. Rivas is Chief Executive Officer of International Media Group and co-founder of Estadio Ventures. He is curator of the Global Shapers San Salvador Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. He holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MA from Harvard. He can be reached at federico. rivas@gmail.com 40 ReVista SPRING 2016 PHOTO ABOVE BY FEDERICO J. RIVAS; PHOTO OPPOSITE PAGE BY BILL GENTILE WWW.BILLGENTILE.COM
THE PAST IN THE PRESENT Salvadoran government forces disembark from a troop carrier in the Salvadoran capital during fierce fighting with insurgents during a bloody guerrilla offensive in 1989.” Mary Jo McConahay Transitional Justice in El Salvador • Jack Spence The Convulsions of War • Steve Cagan Salvadoran Refugees in the Camp at Colomoncagua, Honduras 1980-1991 • M. Brinton Lykes and Nelson Portillo A Search for Justice in El Salvador • Michael S. Serrill A Nation at War with Itself • Bill Gentile Photojournalists in a Cauldron of Violence REVISTA.DRCLAS.HARVARD.EDU ReVista 41
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