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The Presidency of the Council of Ministers PCM in coordination with the Ibero-American General Secretariat SEGIB and the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation APCI announced today that Peru will host the Citizen Innovation Laboratory LABICPE which will seek to promote initiatives in the region to address the global challenge of food security better production nutrition environment and life. During the announcement of the event which is also organized by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation Midagri with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it was reported that citizens will be able to participate in the laboratory with innovative projects that must be presented until July 23 in the following link. 8 proposals will be selected that will work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and from different countries together with a group of mentors who will guide the development of the projects. Also in the face-to-face stage from November 18 to 25 Peru will welcome citizens to collaborate in the prototyping phase. From the PCM we have been promoting concrete actions to guarantee the attention of the main needs of citizens. Innovation and digital transformation are key elements in this commitment. Therefore the alliance with SEGIB will allow our country to advance in citizen innovation within the framework of the National Digital Transformation Policy said Oscar Gmez secretary general of the institution. For his part Andrs Allamand secretary general of the SEGIB recalled that at the last Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo the ethical route for inclusive and sustainable food security in Ibero-America was approved which is why the secretariat seeks to combat this scourge. We thank the Government of Peru for hosting and supporting this initiative and I invite all those who have new ideas to advance food security to participate in LABICPE and turn those ideas into reality he added. Meanwhile the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Development Policies and Supervision Segundo Regalado stressed that it is necessary to implement mechanisms that ensure the availability and continuous access of food to the entire population through the stimulation of the resilient capacity of our food systems. The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation in its leading role of the National Policy on Food and Nutritional Security is aware of the importance of promoting spaces for research innovation and technology transfer he said.Peru has strengthened digital governance within the framework of the accession process to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD and has achieved significant growth in international indicators of digital transformation. This together with the determined impulse to digital innovation in the country have allowed Peru to be chosen as the headquarters of the LABIC Citizen Innovation Laboratory by the SEGIB. The event was also attended by Pablo Pascale head of the Division of Public and Citizen Innovation of the SEGIB Marushka Chocobar Secretary of Government and Digital Transformation of the PCM as well as representatives of the private sector civil society academia and representatives of international cooperation.
