ResumenEste artículo propone como vía para problematizar las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC), su visión de progreso y asociación con el discurso del desarrollo partir de los llamados estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS). Estudios dentro de los cuales la tecnología se entiende como construcción social. Dicho enfoque nos puede ayudar a pensar los elementos centrales que deben tomarse en cuenta a la hora de reflexionar e investigar sobre las autodenominadas redes de TIC para el desarrollo en el caso ecuatoriano.Palabras claves: desarrollo, tecnología, determinismo tecnológico, TIC, sociedad de la información, Ecuador.
AbstractThis article proposes to begin with what are known as science, technology and society studies (STS) as a way to problematize information and communication technologies (ICTs), their vision of progress and their association with the development discourse. In these studies, technology is understood as a social construction. Said focus can help us to think about the central elements that should be taken into account when reflecting on and studying the self-styled ICT networks for development in the Ecuadorian case.
Este artigo apresenta as principais tendências no desenvolvimento do serviço de banda larga na Colombia ao longo da primeira década do século XXI. Mostra os principais marcos, atores privados, públicos e da sociedade civil que fizeram parte do processo, assim como a influência do modelo sob o qual foi feita sua implementação e massificação e as controvérsias que ainda estão pendentes atualmente.
In a range of peace process scenarios, the expert’s knowledge has become a fundamental tool for generating information systems as a mechanism for the storage and circulation of data. These information artifacts are supposed to faithfully document situations of human rights violations and contribute to the design of public policy and the construction of collective memory. Following Latour’s (1993) original coinage of the term coproduction, this paper analyzes how the Inter-Institutional System of Information for Justice and Peace (SIIJYP) was designed to define victims of war and means of reparation from the State in Colombia. From an actor–network theory perspective, we explain how victimizers become the main beneficiaries of the application of the SIIJYP. To comprehend this unintended social impact of the technological artifact and how it becomes an artifact that functions as an aseptic mediator of the historical-judicial truth, and the policy of transitional justice, we examine the relations between human and nonhuman actors, how information is collected, organized, hierarchized, and negotiated, as well as the consequences of the technical and legal construction of the notion of victims of war.
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