📋 Tender Overview
Building on the June 2023 Oval Office meeting between President Lacalle Pou and President Biden and the February 2024 Annual Bilateral Interministerial Dialogue in Washington, DC, the delegations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to demonstrate their shared commitment to advancing innovation, sustainability and economic opportunity, as well as increasing trade. The MoU seeks to increase cooperation and outline a concrete path to advance the development and deployment of certain critical and emerging technologies.
The MoU on certain critical and emerging technologies between Uruguay and the United States launches a bilateral working group that seeks to focus on greater cooperation in the areas of semiconductors, artificial intelligence, data flows, clean energy, telecommunications, cybersecurity and biotechnology. Within the framework of the bilateral working group, Uruguay and the United States hope to meet regularly to determine the specific collaborative activities that both countries plan to carry out, among others, the development and execution of an action plan on cutting-edge technology opportunities ( HIGH, for its acronym in English). Today, Uruguay and the United States announce the first actions planned within the framework of the MoU.
Uruguay and the United States plan to deepen their bilateral and multilateral collaboration on the main critical and emerging technologies, including the identification of opportunities to support the development and use of relevant international standards for the technologies and promote interoperability and global compatibility with them. . With the objective of facilitating greater cooperation in multilateral and international organizations, as well as increasing alliances between institutions, in 2024, the United States plans to receive Uruguayan delegations to participate in visits, events and conferences in the areas of telecommunications, flow of cross-border data and clean energy. This includes an executive-led cleantech mission to the United States with public and private sector participants.
