INNOVATION CENTER:  Can Ecuador’s planned city make the country a tech leader? 

Ecuador is pouring more than $1 billion into a planned city two hours outside of Quito, designed to help the country emerge as a sort of “Silicon Valley of the tropics” over the next 30 years. Known as Yachay, the center is to become a research university and innovation center with a population projected ultimately to reach 100,000. But there are reasons to be skeptical, according to article by Jim Wyss in the Miami Herald. Read all about it here.