The advent of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the establishment of a global Information Society are forcing countries of all shapes and sizes to take a fresh look on their development agendas. In order to tackle the challenging task of integrating the Information Society paradigm appropriately in to the development agenda, this paper proposes a conceptual framework to discuss and analyze the complex issues and challenges related to subject. Basing on an extensive study about the actual situation of the emerging Information Society in Latin America and the Cari…
Asistimos al desaparecimiento del paradigma clásico que veía
en la posición estructural el elemento determinante
en la conformación de la acción colectiva y de los actores sociales.
Producto de los cambios estructurales y culturales en el mundo y
la región —la transformación de la débil sociedad industrial de
Estado nacional en Latinoamérica y la desarticulación de las
relaciones clásicas entre Estado y sociedad — la acción colectiva tiende a configurarse principalmente a través de cuatro ejes:la democratización política;la democratización social o
lucha contra la exclusión y por la ciudadanía…
We are witnessing the disappearance of the traditional
paradigm that viewed the structural position as the
determining factor in shaping collective action and social
actors. Because of the structural and cultural changes that
have occurred in the world and the region -the
transformation of Latin America's weak national Statecentred
industrial society and the break-up of the traditional
relationships between State and society- collective action
is tending to take shape mainly along four axes: political
democratization; social democratization or the struggle
against exclusion and for citize…
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