En este documento se analizan las políticas y programas públicos asociados a las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC); en América Latina y el Caribe, con énfasis en las iniciativas de universalización del acceso a Internet. En particular, se entregan elementos de diagnóstico relativos a la brecha digital, se analizan las estrategias nacionales para la sociedad de la información y se caracteriza el estado de avance en materias de gobierno electrónico. También se desarrolla una revisión de las principales experiencias nacionales de informatización de las escuelas públicas y d…
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…
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…
Caribbean governments have been reacting to the phenomenon that is the Information Age with a variety of policy initiatives. Initially governments trained most of their efforts at facilitating the development of an informatics industry, drawn there by the promise of jobs and foreign exchange earnings. However, the motives for these policy interventions have evolved over time and as a consequence, policy has matured. This paper, which is descriptive rather than analytical, draws heavily on statements made by government decision makers. It attempts to provide an overview of some of the maj…
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…
La discusión sobre el papel del sector público y del privado en la estrategia de desarrollo conduce naturalmente al análisis de las orientaciones principales del sector público, tanto respecto de su actuar propio como de la fijación de marcos normativos para el desempeño de actividades determinadas. Estas orientaciones se desagregan en políticas públicas, es decir, en cursos de acción del sector público con relación a un objetivo más o menos delimitado. El soporte institucional de la participación directa e indirecta de dicho sector en la estrategia de desarrollo es la administración, conforma…
Consideration of the roles to be played by the public and private sectors in a country's development strategy naturally leads to an analysis of the public sector's main orientations regarding both its own actions and the establishment of a regulatory framework for the performance of certain types of activities. These orientations are expressed through public policies, i.e., the courses of action followed by the public sector in pursuance of a more or less well-defined objective. The administration, made up of the various government ministries and departments, is what provides the ins…