Intervención de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en la Ceremonia de Inauguración de la III Conferencia Regional de Datos Abiertos para América Latina y el Caribe.
Leída por el señor Pascual Gerstenfeld
Santiago de Chile
9 de septiembre de 2015
Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
Nicolás Eyzaguirre, Ministro Secretario General de la Presidencia,
Marcelo Drago, Integrante del Consejo de la Transparencia,
Distinguidas autoridades, directivos públicos y responsables de las estrategias de acceso a información y apertura de datos públicos,
Comunidad regional que trabaja activament…
Abstract New technological options that permit the use of digital systems to create and disseminate information around the world are paving the way for new means of organizing society and economic production and are gradually giving rise to a meta-paradigm that has come to be referred to as the Information Society. Viewed from the perspective of developing countries, the question of how to employ this emerging paradigm to achieve broader development goals and to integrate them more fully into the global Information Society is an issue of the utmost importance on the development agenda…
Abstract This paper is part of an investigation about the impact of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Latin America. Based on the theoretical groundwork given in the introductory paper (From industrial economics to digital economics: an introduction to the transition ), the present paper gives an inventory of the state of development with regard to the regional transition to the so-called Information Society, in order to untangle and structure present dynamics. As knowledge and information are becoming the focus of activity, penetrating and dominating capital, natural…
Naciones Unidas