Tectonic Shifts: The 2023 Latin America Digital Transformation Report
In its 4th edition, Atlantico's annual report on the key drivers shaping tech and innovation in Latin America is launching today
Tectonic Shifts. The movement of gigantic plates that make up our world’s foundation, that has led to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions but also to the emergence of life itself. A fitting metaphor for Latin America today.
Great change can bring great challenges, but also great opportunity to those that embrace it. As we explore the five forces transforming Latin America today, we aim to help innovators weave change into opportunity and progress.
In this year's report, we go deep on five big changes underway in Latin America:
Macro tailwinds from a confluence of three factors — lowering interest rates (Brazil and Chile ahead of the global curve), growing demand for the region's commodity exports both to power the clean energy transition and feed an expanding global population, and an unexpected demand reward for LatAm's neutrality in a polarized US-China scenario.
An evolving demographic profile of internet users, online shoppers, and digital bankers that more closely mirrors the population at large, now that the middle- and lower-income classes are digital-first.
As access to financial and human capital stabilize and hold firm at healthy levels, entrepreneurs are feeling a new burst of optimism and energy as they build towards capturing their share of the $1 trillion+ of value that will be created over the next decades.
At the forefront of the world, Brazil's financial sector has turned money from paper into pixels and is now serving as an example for other countries to follow suit. In a digitally-fluid financial system, where new accounts are easily created and credit is quickly accessed, new priorities emerge, among them a battle for principality and a heightened need to tame data to manage risk.
AI is certainly the protagonist in the technological dislocations of the decade. Still riddled by persistent problems like poverty, lacking education, and scarce access to healthcare, Latin America stands to gain from harnessing the power of AI to be the great equalizer.
We tell these stories and more through data spanning more than 100 slides of original analysis, primary research, and company case studies. If you like what you read, we hope you will forward this message to colleagues and friends and help us get the message out on social media (see our launch announcement on Twitter and LinkedIn).
Join us by checking out this year's Latin America Digital Transformation Report.