Digital Opportunities, Equity, and Poverty in Latin America

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Cecchini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Latin American Countries

This chapter examines the digital divide that exists within Latin American countries. It argues that information and communication technology is creating new opportunities that can be seized to support human development and poverty-reduction strategies. However, it also clarifies that ICT on its own cannot leapfrog the old institutional and organizational weaknesses of Latin American economies and societies. The author hopes that understanding the deep-rooted inequalities that underlie ICT access in Latin America will not only inform researchers on the challenges for the development of the information society in the region, but also assist policy makers in the preparation and implementation of appropriate public policies.

Digital Opportunities, Equity, and Poverty in Latin America

2008 ◽  
pp. 2566-2585
Author(s):  
Simone Cecchini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Latin American Countries

This chapter examines the digital divide that exists within Latin American countries. It argues that information and communication technology is creating new opportunities that can be seized to support human development and poverty-reduction strategies. However, it also clarifies that ICT on its own cannot leapfrog the old institutional and organizational weaknesses of Latin American economies and societies. The author hopes that understanding the deep-rooted inequalities that underlie ICT access in Latin America will not only inform researchers on the challenges for the development of the information society in the region, but also assist policy makers in the preparation and implementation of appropriate public policies.

Creative Labor, Mental Objects and the Modern Theory of Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-484
Author(s):  
Alan Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Mental Objects ◽  
Theory Of Production ◽  
Mental Object

Recent decades have seen a proliferation of literature on creativity, with no consensus about what it consists of. Chinese and Russian contributions throw new light on these debates because of their concern with economic and human development. By integrating this with the widely-used concept of the “creative industries,” a rigorous concept of creativity rooted in the notion of creative labor is proposed. This can be defined as non-mechanical labor which, in conjunction with Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has produced a mass market in products embodying the use-value of distinctness. The creative industries then emerge as a branch of the division of labor making intensive use of creative labor in combination with mental objects, such as scientific and artistic products. Software, itself a mental object, is an “instrument of mental production” in these industries, helping explain their potential contribution to human development, and the obstacles to this potential imposed by the commodity form.

scholarly journals Education and Learning in the 21st Century: An Emergency Agenda for Sustainable Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 313-318
Author(s):  
Ivan Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

The 21st Century has observed an increase transformation based on economy and social patterns. The challenging of education is now prepared for the future, not for the present. The changing environment of learning is related to competencies and skills rather than in particular subjects and theories. How to teach what is not present yet? Why education must be profoundly related to both Information and Communication Technology and human ethnic? This paper is dedicated to highlight some of these points, bringing some reflections regarding these topics about the relationship between Africa and Latin America, especially Brazil.

scholarly journals CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY FOR SMART CITY IMPLEMENTATION

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W17 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
R. G. G. Alam ◽  
H. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Standard Document ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
Cyberspace Security

Abstract. The development of information and communication technology has spread throughout the world. Many benefits can be obtained, but the risks cannot be avoided. Communication grows massively in cyberspace and thus poses a security threat to smart city services. This threat can be overcome through national spectrum by implementing cyberspace security strategies in developing smart cities. This paper describes cybersecurity strategies performed in supporting the development of smart cities. Security strategies are developed based on factors related to the perspective of three pillars of smart city implementation models, namely technology, people, and institutions. Factors related to cybersecurity from these three pillars are explored from the experience of policy makers, actors, and users of smart city services, and evaluated using the opinions of cybersecurity experts and smart cities. This strategy will be a standard document that will be used as a reference in carrying out all processes related to information security in supporting the development of smart cities.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure and Financial Inclusion in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 3781-3783
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Total Productivity ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

ICT (Information and Communication Technology ) is the mostly discussed and observed subject matter now a days. In the all round progress of an economy , this sector has a key role to play. An economy cannot thrive well with proper information and communication technology. In driving the development of financial inclusion and sustainable development the role played by information and communication technology , cannot be overlooked. This infrastructure plays a crucial role ,enhancing the technical progress and thereby total productivity of the economy. Moreover previous findings have also showed a positive correlation of ICT on economic growth. This paper studies the role of ICT by using a multiple regression analysis. We have used mainly secondary data to arrive a logical conclusion. It is expected that this paper will help the policy makers and the researchers in analyzing and understanding the importance of financial inclusiveness for economic development.

Trends of Educational Informatics in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adán A. Gómez ◽  
Manuel F. Caro ◽  
Angela M. Solano ◽  
Yina M. Vega
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Research Area ◽  
General View ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
New Perspective

Educational Informatics is a multidisciplinary research area that uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. This article reports a wide overview about the new perspective of educational informatics that has been implemented in Latin America. This general view is the result of the different talks presented during the XIII Conference of Educational Informatics, organized by the Ibero-American Network of Educational Informatics RIBIE (Red Iberoamericana de Informática Educativa) in Colombia. These talks were proposed by international panelists from various parts of Latin America in the lines of ICT for Education and Peace, Thinking and Artificial Intelligence, Emergent Scenarios in Education and Mobiles Technologies and Apps for Entrepreneurship and Learning.

Is ICT the Key to Development?

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Gholami ◽  
Dolores Añón Higón ◽  
Payam Hanafizadeh ◽  
Ali Emrouznejad
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Healthcare Education ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Regression Approach ◽  
Information And Communication

Using panel data for 52 developed and developing countries over the period 1998-2006, this article examines the links between information and communication technology diffusion and human development. We conducted a panel regression analysis of the investments per capita in healthcare, education and information and communication technology against human development index scores. Using a quantile regression approach, our findings suggest that changes in healthcare, education and information and communication technology provision have a stronger impact on human development index scores for less developed than for highly developed countries. Furthermore, at lower levels of development education fosters development directly and also indirectly through their enhanced effects on ICT. At higher levels of development education has only an indirect effect on development through the return to ICT.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technology Users ◽  
China Today

The concluding chapter of China’s Digital Nationalism retraces the central findings and arguments of the book. It first summarizes how digital discourses are managed in China today, and it then asks what implications digital nationalism has for the PRC and its regional relations. Following this discussion on East Asia, the chapter turns to more general findings about imagined communities and networked societies, and it summarizes how nationalism changes in a time of ubiquitous digital media use. Finally, the chapter concludes with a personal, normative assessment, which is that without serious rethinking on the part of policy-makers, information gate-keepers, tech innovators, and information and communication technology users, the twenty-first century is bound to again be a century of nations and nationalism, now filtered through the networks of neoliberal digital capitalism. Without intervention, this will be a parochial world, ultimately ill-equipped to handle the daunting challenges humanity faces today.

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