http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/49684 2013-05-21T10:07:44Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/48320 Title: Debates teóricos entorno al vínculo de los jóvenes con las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) Authors: Aguerre, Carolina; Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; Calamari, Marina; Fontecoba, Ariel; Gaztañaga, Miguel; Moguillansky, Marina; Orchuela, Jimena; Ponce de León, Jimena Description: La actual expansión de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en América Latina, y en Argentina en particular, sigue una distribución sumamente desigual entre sectores de la población siendo principalmente sostenida por los jóvenes de clase media-alta. Esta tendencia remite, según algunos enfoques, a la existencia de una brecha digital generacional que produce diferencias entre nativos e inmigrantes digitales (Prensky, 2001). Siguiendo esta perspectiva, el autor de la teoría de la “era de la información” supone que la brecha tendería a desaparecer con el paso del tiempo a través de la educación (Castells, 2010). En contraposición a estos análisis, estudios recientes proponen el concepto de “pobreza digital” (Galperín y Mariscal, 2007), inspirado en las ideas de Amartya Sen (2000). Este enfoque reconoce la existencia de restricciones estructurales para la adopción de las TIC e indica que la participación en la sociedad de la información depende (y al mismo tiempo afecta) otros aspectos críticos de la pobreza como la educación, la salud, las redes sociales, la productividad y la participación política. Un tercer enfoque lo constituyen los aportes de la antropología y la sociología de la cultura que incorporan la dimensión subjetiva de la apropiación de las tecnologías (Winocur, 2007). En este trabajo discutimos las derivaciones teórico-metodológicas de estas perspectivas en relación con los avances de nuestro estudio de caso en la Argentina, centrado en espacios que brindan acceso público a las computadoras e Internet a jóvenes en contextos de pobreza urbana. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/48028 Title: Public access to ICTs : sculpting the profile of users; working paper Authors: Sciadas, George; Lyons, Hil; Rothschild, Chris; Sey, Araba 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45568 Title: Implicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perú Authors: Kanashiro, Laura León 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45564 Title: Public access to ICT and employment : case of the impact of public access to ICT skills on job prospects in Rwanda Authors: Damascène, M. Jean; Theodomir, M. Abstract: The modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely seen by countries as a major drive for their socio-economic development. This is demonstrated by huge investments put in ICT projects. Despite such investments, less is done to evaluate the impact of the access to ICT in specific sectors such as employment. This paper presents a study which intends to evaluate the impact of ICT skills acquired from public access ICT venues on job prospects in Rwanda. A mixed method approach is adopted to carry out the investigation. The study is in progress such that the paper does not present any findings, but the study is expected to contribute to the improvement of our understanding of the impact of public access to ICT and to have a potential public policy impact. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45563 Title: Internet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identities Authors: Dacanay, Nikos Abstract: This paper, taken from an on-going research on the use of Internet centers by marginalized women in the Thai- Burma border, reflects upon the various means of appropriation of the technology. The Internet has ostensibly liberating effects on these women, but this paper proposes that there is more to the feeling of being free in the virtual world. There is currently a “project” of affirming, claiming, and molding traditional ethnic identities through the use of Internet. The paper imagines this as revolutionizing the discursive mode of resistance and rebellion by these marginalized women against the military regime in Burma. Using their agentic qualities, the women transform their social scripts as “marginalized” and “displaced” into “empowered” women who are informed, educated, and aware of their human rights. Set in the border town of Mae Sod in Tak province Thailand and against the backdrop of an omnipresent – but mute - population of illegal migrants from Burma, the discursive inferior-superior relationship between Thais and Burmese, and the complex networking of bodies and organizations providing humanitarian and development aid in the border, this paper looks at the symbiotic relationship between the use of the Internet and the re/construction of ethnic identities. The paper argues that the incomplete and ongoing self-making ethnic identity project shapes how Internet is used as much as how Internet is also shaping this identity project (i.e. construction of virtual identities, appropriation of modern identities, repairing ethnic identities, etc.) 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z