The Impact of the Internet on Local Social Equity: A Study of a Telecenter in Aguablanca, Colombia

Parkinson, Sarah; Lauzon, Al

doi:10.1162/itid.2008.00015

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“…Shunnaq (2006) gives an example of this, where public access points provide a space for families to spend time together, while also providing the opportunity to build other social relationships in the virtual world. In this regard, Parkinson and Lauzon (2008) suggest that it may be useful for telecentres to include older persons in their target group. Moreover, the refocusing of approaches used to involve older adults in using ICTs has been advocated (Selwyn et al, 2003).…”

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The challenge of e-participation in the digital city: Exploring generational influences among community telecentre users

Bailey¹,

Ngwenyama²

2011

Telematics and Informatics

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The challenge of e-participation in the digital city: Exploring generational influences among community telecentre users

Bailey¹,

Ngwenyama²

2011

Telematics and Informatics

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“…Desde todos los sectores del amplio espectro de las ciencias sociales se han realizado estudios; algunos observan las posibilidades para el desarrollo social (Finquelievich y Prince, 2007), la inclusión social (Amariles, Paz, Russell, y Johnson, 2006;Parkinson y Lauzon, 2008;Warschauer, 2003), o el desarrollo comunitario (Gómez y Barón Porras, 2010;Unwin, 2009), donde Internet es usualmente observada (directa o indirectamente, consciente o inconscientemente) como una herramienta para el desarrollo y el bienestar social, como si las políticas de acceso a la capa tangible de Internet (hardware, incluyendo infraestructura) fuera condición necesaria y suficiente para garantizar mejoras sociales. Otros analizan las potencialidades para el cambio social que ofrece Internet, comprendiendo las modificaciones al repertorio político que esto significa para los movimientos sociales (Earl y Kimport, 2011), o bien, los modos en que los seres humanos lo usan para cambiar las instituciones sociales y, en caso de concebir que esos cambios suceden, para analizar si los mismos son graduales o si implican transformaciones de los modos previos de organización (Surrat, 2001).…”

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Internet: entre las posibilidades de lo intangible, la dinámica social y las reconfiuraciones del capital

Lucero

González

2015

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ResumenEn este artículo se esbozan elementos teóricos para el análisis de las nuevas tecnologías y en especial de Internet, dada la interrelación e influencia continua entre sociedad y tecnología. Ello permite abordar Internet como una serie de tecnologías digitales caracterizadas por un conjunto de capas imbricadas de carácter intangible y tangible. La hipótesis de este trabajo es que Internet ha puesto en crisis las formas clásicas de valoración del capital en relación a mercados signados directamente por precios y a la propiedad privada. De ahí que se concluya que los procesos en curso de configuración de la web sean producto de un entrecruzamiento entre las posibilidades que brindan los códigos técnicos en Internet desde sus inicios y la lógica del capital que, en cada caso particular, asume matices de ambas formas. De esto se sigue la importancia de analizar las particularidades del diseño y construcción de tecnologías, para comprender, a raíz de ello, las potencialidades y posibilidades políticas implicadas en los códigos técnicos del conjunto de tecnologías que componen Internet.Palabras clave: tecnología, sociedad, Internet, capital, mercado. *Máster en Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología por la Universidad de Salamanca (España) y doctorando en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Fue becario del programa de formación de la Fundación Carolina (España) y actualmente es becario de posgrado del Conicet (Argentina). Sus intereses de investigación incluyen los estudios sociales de la tecnología, redes sociales y economía política de la comunicación. AbstractIn this article, theoretical elements for analysis of new technologies, especially the Internet are outlined, given the interrelationship and the continuing influence between society and technology. This allows to address the Internet as a series of digital technologies characterized by a set of tangible and intangible overlapping layers. The hypothesis of this study is that the Internet has placed the classical forms of capital in a critical situation regarding markets designated directly by private property and by prices. Hence, it is concluded that the ongoing processes of web configuration are the product of a cross-linking between the possibilities offered by technical codes on the Internet since its onset and the logic of capital that in each particular case assumes nuances of both forms. The result of this is the importance of analyzing the peculiarities of design and construction technologies, to understand, as a consequence, the potential and political possibilities involved in technical codes of the set of technologies that are part of the Internet.

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“…In their study of the usefulness of telecenters in Colombia (2008) the authors found that while telecenters may be designed, funded and staffed for livelihoods and equity-access, they weren't used by that target population for those development goals [39].…”

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Dodson

Sterling

Bennett

2012

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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This paper examines forty articles published in the journal Information Technologies & International Development between 2003 and in an effort to identify commonalities among projects that failed to meet some or all of their development objectives. We considered whether the selected papers articulated clear development objectives, and whether baseline data was used to inform project design. We then considered two factors associated with how development objectives are implemented: the development perspective (top-down vs. bottom-up), and the project focus (the technology vs. the community). Our goal was not to find fault with our colleagues or their work, rather to advance the debate about the effectiveness of ICTD initiatives at a particularly important point in the history of the discipline. We conclude that top-down, technology-centric, goal-diffuse approaches to ICTD contribute to unsatisfactory development results. Careful consideration of development objectives, perspective and focus is essential in all phases of an ICTD project, from design to deployment. Honest and comprehensive reporting of failure (and success) helps ICTD researchers and practitioners focus on best practices in meeting critical development needs.

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The Impact of the Internet on Local Social Equity: A Study of a Telecenter in Aguablanca, Colombia

Cited by 30 publications

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The challenge of e-participation in the digital city: Exploring generational influences among community telecentre users

The challenge of e-participation in the digital city: Exploring generational influences among community telecentre users

Internet: entre las posibilidades de lo intangible, la dinámica social y las reconfiuraciones del capital

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