DevTech

DevTech delivers data-driven intelligence that de-risks investment, strengthens public finance, and supports strategic decision-making in complex environments.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

DevTech is honored to have received the 2024 Partnership for Public Service Data Excellence Award.

Through data-driven insights, we help ensure that resources are directed where they are needed most, supporting informed decision-making, collaboration, and long-term impact.

In partnership with the U.S. Department of State, our team developed https://t.co/v6UPgV1EUt, the U.S. government’s flagship platform for foreign assistance data. By transforming complex financial information into accessible, usable insights, we are advancing global transparency and accountability.

Our commitment to data clarity extends beyond the federal level. We are also proud to support state governments in using data to drive smarter policy and budget decisions. From Maryland and Virginia to Tennessee and Oregon, DevTech’s analytics and dashboard solutions help states strengthen financial transparency, measure impact, and serve their communities more effectively.

We are proud to help make government data more open, meaningful, and actionable at every level of governance.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

DevTech's Magpie has a new look~ and a new link!

Magpie is DevTech’s AI-powered data platform designed to make complex information easier to explore, analyze, and understand. It combines interactive dashboards, data visualizations, and AI-driven capabilities to help users identify trends, uncover insights, and support informed decision-making.

Follow the link now to explore the updated platform and see it for yourself.
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[DevTech @DevTechSys]

DevTech’s latest research explores the relationship between Cuba’s informal exchange rate and patterns of social unrest. Drawing on DevTech’s own high-frequency CUP/USD exchange-rate data alongside event information from GDELT and ACLED, the study construct the Cuba Sociopolitical Instability Signals Index (CSISI), a daily instability signal built separately for Cuba's state and exile/independent media, and examines whether movements in the informal peso market can provide timely insight into changing social and political conditions in Cuba.

Co-Author Dr. Jose Pineda presented these findings at the @ASCECuba conference this past weekend.

Read the full paper on our website to learn more about how DevTech is combining economic, media, and event data to develop new approaches to real-time analysis.
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[DevTech @DevTechSys]

Many thanks @MCaruso_Cabrera for leading the (@ASCECuba) Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) #Keynote session on open source #data on #Cuba at @fiu_sipa, and a heartfelt thank you also to @FIUPresident for her warm welcome and her support for ASCE's conference at @FIU. Congratulations to @GordonInstitute on their #Cuba humanitarian dashboard, @eltoquecom on their Markets data platform, and @FIULACC on extending @LAPOP_Lab to Cuba, all of which were presented alongside @devtechsys's Magpie platform and Cuba Black Market exchange rate.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

This weekend, DevTech President and CEO Rafael Romeu will be a featured speaker in the keynote session, Emerging Data from Cuba, at the 2026 Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy @ASCECuba Annual Conference.

Learn more in ASCE’s post below. 👇

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[DevTech @DevTechSys]

This weekend, DevTech President and CEO Rafael Romeu will be a featured speaker in the keynote session, Emerging Data from Cuba, at the 2026 Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy @ASCECuba Annual Conference.

Learn more in ASCE’s post below. 👇

https://t.co/YywDffIAdG

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

We are hiring! DevTech is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team.

We are seeking a resourceful data professional with a combination of capabilities in data engineering, data analysis and the use of automation and AI tools that can help improve efficiency and productivity in data pipelines and analysis. The ideal candidate combines technical expertise and strong analytical skills with intellectual curiosity.

Learn more and apply at: https://t.co/mL0dF7gT07

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

The @WSJ has identified the real scandal in #Cuba: successful Cuban-Americans are planning for what comes next. Not seven decades of confiscation. Not default on virtually everyone. Apparently the suspicious part is that people in Miami are planning a power grid, investment funding, and basic commercial law.

But if #Cuba quit the @IMFNews and @WorldBankGroup, burned the #ParisClub, #Moscow, #Beijing, #Caracas and private creditors, who exactly is supposed to show up first? The answer is its #Diaspora. Apparently a transition plan becomes morally suspicious if the people writing it have succeeded in America. Come argue with the numbers, not the swimming pools, this weekend at the @ASCECuba Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) Annual Conference in #Miami: https://t.co/ZXGR0glOor . The economics are complicated; the discomfort with Cuba’s wealthy diaspora is not.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

They're drawing up plans for a Havana stock exchange and studying floating power stations. The wealthy Miami residents plotting Cuba’s future. https://t.co/MYMcadjO3Z

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

We are hiring! DevTech is looking for a Data Analyst and Visualization Specialist to join our team.

If you are technically skilled, analytically minded, and excited about using data to improve efficiency and support foreign assistance activities, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply and learn more here: https://t.co/YkmmEUMFGZ

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

The @WSJ structures its coverage of #Cuban exile transition planning around a narrative of transaction and opportunism. Throughout the piece, the editorial framing explicitly contrasts Miami wealth—described around waterfront pools and "faux-marble statues"—with island deprivation, characterizing the preparation of transition laws and investment capital as positioning for "a swing at the Cuban piñata".

From an economic perspective, this framing misidentifies the true nature of risk capital and post-authoritarian transition planning.

First, actual economic extraction over the past six decades was carried out by corporate and state counterparties operating in direct partnership with the Castro regime. For example, European hotel chains formed joint ventures directly with the military conglomerate #GAESA on confiscated land, while foreign governments funneled billions in hard currency to Havana through exported medical missions (such as #Brazil’s Mais Médicos and arrangements in #Venezuela), where the state extracted at least 75% to 85% of professional salaries under terms documented by the UN and federal courts as forced labor.

Second, with Cuba’s infrastructure collapsed and traditional patron subsidies exhausted, the domestic economy has virtually no alternative path forward. In post-crisis economics, familiar capital entering first is standard, essential practice:

- China (Post-1978): During early Gaige Kaifang, Western institutional capital hesitated due to non-convertible currency and absent property laws. Ethnic Chinese diaspora networks via Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore provided 60%–70% of China's initial utilized Foreign Direct Investment (Huang, Selling China, 2003; Naughton, The China Circle, 1997).

- Vietnam (Post-1986): Following Đổi Mới, Việt Kiều capital and cross-border commercial networks stabilized retail, services, and light manufacturing long before formal normalization with the West (World Bank DDI studies).

- Israel (Post-1950): Deemed an uninsurable sovereign credit risk during its early liquidity crisis, the state turned to diaspora-backed Israel Bonds, which underwrote roughly 35% of its development budget to fund water, power, and port networks (Bank of Israel, 2004).

- The Baltic States (Post-1991): Returning émigré economists and legal professionals directly established currency boards, drafted early commercial codes, and led key ministries to replace Soviet planning (Eglitis, Imagining the Nation, 2002).

Diasporas absorb early risk where outside institutional capital cannot. Preparing legal frameworks, airport rehabilitation, and electrical grid stabilization is the prerequisite for viability in #Cuba and to be expected.

The policy architecture, legal codification, and macroeconomic realities of Cuba's post-transition economy are addressed directly at the (@ASCECuba) Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Annual Conference taking place in #Miami this coming weekend, where many of the analysts and planners involved in these efforts will convene: https://t.co/GCmMkRjMwo

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

At a sprawling waterfront Miami mansion, a group of wealthy Cuban-Americans has spent months hatching detailed plans for a country that doesn’t yet exist. https://t.co/tufbJfhPZZ

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

At DevTech, data visualization is more than creating charts or graphs; it is about transforming complex information into tools that help organizations understand trends, explore evidence, and make informed decisions.

Across our projects, that capability takes many forms. For the Data for the Indo-Pacific initiative, we integrated diverse datasets and developed visualization tools that strengthened the Department of State's regional analysis.

DevTech’s MONITOR® Management Information System further demonstrates how dashboards, GIS mapping, data validation, and automated reporting can bring performance information together in one accessible platform.

Our Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) Dashboard brings that same approach to economic forecasting, translating complex probabilistic analysis into interactive visualizations of potential debt trajectories. Users can explore how changes in factors such as economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, and oil prices may affect debt sustainability, making uncertainty and alternative economic scenarios easier to understand.

Different, sectors. Different challenges. Different audiences. One shared goal: making data easier to understand and more useful.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

At DevTech, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) helps organizations understand not only whether programs are achieving their intended outcomes, but also what drives those results and how future investments can be strengthened.

For Fundación BBVA’s Supérate 2025 initiative, DevTech designed an impact evaluation to assess how incentives for educational communities affect student participation, program completion, and cognitive and socioemotional learning. The evaluation brings together baseline and final assessments, platform and administrative data, and contextual factors to measure impact and better understand how results may vary across schools and student populations.

By pairing rigorous evaluation methods with practical learning, DevTech’s MERL approach helps transform program data into evidence that can strengthen implementation, improve effectiveness, and inform future decisions.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

The informal #Cuban #peso closed today at roughly 690 CUP/USD — @DevTechSys's #dashboard, updated yesterday, cross-checked against @eltoquecom 's independently collected series. A year ago it was 358. Four years before that, it was 42. The last 30 days show a swing from 576 to 707, with day-to-day moves of 25–30 pesos now routine. This is what a currency looks like when the @BancoCentralCub monetizes the deficit faster than the real economy can absorb it.

#Cuba's 93% currency depreciation is largely driven by the regime's own abuse and neglect, e.g. @OSDE_UNE reported a 2,267 MW shortfall against 3,300 MW of demand last week — six thermal units down, generation barges out of service, 106 #diesel units idle for lack of fuel. Pensions clear at the equivalent of $4 a month. The @USEmbCuba is issuing health alerts for E. coli and Shigella tied to the #water system's collapse. Sixty years of a state consuming its own capital stock, financed by rent-seeking (e.g. from remittances and "service exports" to @PresidenciaVen in #Venezuela) and money printing.

To report Cuba's black market rate, our pipeline reads tens of thousands of public social media posts a month, uses a language model to extract reported peso-dollar and peso-euro transactions, and converts that into a daily time series — #OSINT infrastructure built for a market that offers no other way to see it clearly. We'll be presenting this and other open-source data sources for empirical Cuba analysis at @ASCECuba (Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy)'s 2026 Annual Conference at @FIU in #Miami at @fiu_sipa , September 25. Details: https://t.co/lyitNb1PEo, registration: https://t.co/FEkntbJEJI

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

DevTech's Cuban Exchange Rate Dashboard provides analysis of how the Cuban Peso is trading against the U.S. dollar and euro in the informal market, offering a perspective beyond the official exchange rate. The dashboard processes thousands of publicly available social media posts and converts reported buying and selling activity into daily time-series data, updated on a weekly basis. The resulting dataset complements the independently collected figures published by elTOQUE. Comparing these two sources, which rely on distinct methodologies, allows researchers to better evaluate exchange-rate dynamics in a context where transparency is limited.

Explore the dashboard at: https://t.co/kwDRBr2EMP

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

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This morning, DevTech CEO Rafael Romeu joined a panel at @FIUdc 's Cuba Desk to discuss the upcoming annual @ASCECuba Cuba Conference, taking place September 25–26 in Miami, Florida, at FIU. DevTech and ASCE are proud to work with the FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), the FIU Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy, and the Center for Global Democracy at Vanderbilt University, which have made strides to advance data and research on Cuba.

Watch the Cuba Desk discussion with Rafael starting at 59:00:

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

We are excited to announce that DevTech’s Dynamic Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) Dashboard is now live. Designed to help policymakers better understand public debt risks under economic uncertainty, the dashboard moves beyond a single baseline forecast by visualizing a range of possible debt trajectories and testing how changes in economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, and other external shocks can affect debt sustainability.
Through interactive fan charts, probability estimates, and scenario analysis, users can explore fiscal vulnerabilities, compare alternative outcomes, and assess policy trade-offs in a more dynamic and forward-looking way. Developed with applications to the African context, the framework demonstrates how fiscal policy, macroeconomic conditions, expenditure choices, and external factors interact to shape debt outcomes.

For more details read the official paper: https://t.co/pgEVfUi8Ab

Explore the dashboard on our website: https://t.co/gGqxUztq9j

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

With devastating natural disasters continuing to affect communities around the world, the message of DevTech’s Insights article, When the Earth Shakes, Institutions Matter, remains increasingly relevant. Natural hazards may be unavoidable, but their human and economic consequences are shaped in large part by the strength of the institutions responsible for preparing, coordinating, and responding.

Drawing on the June 2026 earthquakes in Venezuela, DevTech’s Jose Pineda examines how weak governance, fragmented coordination, inadequate infrastructure, limited transparency, and unreliable data can compound the effects of a disaster. Building resilience therefore requires more than physical reconstruction—it requires strong institutions, accountable governance, credible information, and the capacity to act effectively when communities need it most.

Read the full article to explore why institutional resilience is an essential component of disaster preparedness and recovery.
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[DevTech @DevTechSys]

Our thoughts are with the communities across Nepal affected by the recent flooding. As the country responds and looks ahead, the importance of resilience, strong institutions, and long-term planning is especially clear.

DevTech was proud to support the Asian Productivity Organization and the Government of Nepal in developing a 10-year roadmap to strengthen productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable economic growth. Through analytical research, international benchmarking, and stakeholder consultations, our team helped shape a practical framework that defines institutional responsibilities, establishes monitoring mechanisms, and introduces a national productivity scorecard to track progress.

The Master Plan provides a foundation for coordinated, measurable action—supporting Nepal’s efforts to build a more productive and resilient economy for the decade ahead.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

Our thoughts are with the communities across Nepal affected by the recent flooding. As the country responds and looks ahead, the importance of resilience, strong institutions, and long-term planning is especially clear.

DevTech was proud to support the Asian Productivity Organization and the Government of Nepal in developing a 10-year roadmap to strengthen productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable economic growth. Through analytical research, international benchmarking, and stakeholder consultations, our team helped shape a practical framework that defines institutional responsibilities, establishes monitoring mechanisms, and introduces a national productivity scorecard to track progress.

The Master Plan provides a foundation for coordinated, measurable action—supporting Nepal’s efforts to build a more productive and resilient economy for the decade ahead.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

@robin_j_brooks The breathless coverage (e.g. @bloomberg) would seem should be less about the return to "multi-decades highs" and more about our debt-levels, which actually are at legitimate historic highs and have strong implications.

[DevTech @DevTechSys]

DevTech is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), Category B: Enterprise-Wide ITC/AV Service Solutions.

Through SEWP VI Category B, DevTech is positioned to support federal agencies with enterprise-wide information technology, communications, and audio-visual service solutions through a streamlined procurement vehicle designed to facilitate access to mission-critical capabilities. SEWP VI provides federal customers with flexible access to technology solutions and services that support evolving operational needs, including cloud services, managed services, shared services, enterprise IT security, application services, and related ITC/AV support.

As a SEWP VI contract holder, DevTech looks forward to competing for opportunities to help agencies modernize their IT environments, strengthen operational effectiveness, and meet mission requirements with reliable, scalable, and innovative technology solutions. Building on its experience delivering data, digital, and technology services across the federal government, DevTech is proud to support customers through this important contract vehicle.

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[DevTech @DevTechSys]

“Cuba’s reconstruction must be funded by private-sector investment and Cuban diaspora capital, inside a disciplined, legally enforceable framework from Day One.” - Rafael Romeu, Ph.D.

DevTech CEO and Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) President Rafael Romeu was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal, sharing his perspective on what it would take to stabilize and rebuild Cuba following a political transition.

As Mary Anastasia O’Grady concludes, “Tighter sanctions on corrupt Cuban insiders could speed their exit. But so too could a credible plan for the morning after.”

We appreciate O’Grady and The Wall Street Journal for distilling this complex issue and highlighting Rafael’s “Cuba Day Zero” framework for stabilization, reconstruction, and the path to investment.

Read about Cuba Day Zero: https://t.co/1AeN5fXByf

Read the full article: https://t.co/h9a49OL2FP

[MaryAnastasiaO'Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG]

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