Mexico Could Double Its Per Capita Income in 10 Years, Says Carlos Slim Domit

Empowering Future Leaders

• 💡 Carlos Slim Domit addressed México Siglo XXI scholarship recipients, emphasizing their discipline, effort, and commitment to personal and academic growth.
• 🌱 The event aims to strengthen students' formation, foster connections, and highlight the importance of education and self-construction for future leaders.
• 💬 Global leaders share their stories of success, failures, and challenges, inspiring students to pursue their dreams.

Advancing Connectivity & Technology

• 🚀 Telmex and Telcel transformed an inefficient public company into a world-class telecommunications provider through continuous investment, innovation, and efficiency.
• 📱 Telcel pioneered the prepaid mobile model in 1996, enabling connectivity for billions and establishing América Móvil as a global Mexican company across 23 countries.
• 🧠 Artificial Intelligence is recognized as a powerful enabler of human activities, with exponential improvements in reach and precision, despite inherent risks.
• 🔬 AI applications are already impacting health, with early disease detection and personalized treatments, and education, offering adaptive tutors and removing language barriers.

Carlos Slim Foundation's Impact

• ✅ The foundation supports health initiatives, including early childhood nutrition, chronic disease detection with MIDIO for 4 million people, and promoting organ donation, facilitating 11,425 transplants.
• 🌍 Environmental efforts include protecting one-third of Mexico's natural areas and 33 species, alongside cultural contributions like the Museo Soumaya, recognized globally for digital content.
• 🍎 In food security, the foundation partners with the National Food Bank Network to recover and redistribute food, aiming to reach over 8 million people by 2028.
• 📚 The Aprende platform offers free education and training in 428 different trades to 57 million people across Mexico, the US, and Latin America, promoting social development.

Vision for Mexico's Economic Future

• 📈 Mexico has the potential to achieve economic growth exceeding 4% and a per capita income of $20,000 within the next decade.
• 💰 This ambitious goal is supported by a plan for annual investment of at least 25% of GDP, with over 80% coming from private national investment.
• ✨ These efforts aim to substantially improve the socioeconomic status and quality of life for millions of people across the nation.

Principles for Success

• ⚓ Students are encouraged to be like ships, not made to stay in port, but to navigate far and achieve great things.
• 🛠️ Success requires character (resilience), equipment (education and continuous learning), direction (personal goals), leadership (guiding destiny), and a crew (colleagues and support system).
• 🤝 The speaker reaffirms a deep commitment to investing, working, and believing in Mexico's potential, seeing the youth as the hope for its realization.