Estrategias para la reducción de la brecha digital. Caso INFOCENTRO del cantón Rocafuerte, provincia de Manabí, Ecuador. 2018.

Abstract

The digital divide is the distance between individual, residential, academic and geographical areas at different socio-economic levels in relation to their opportunities to access new information and communication technologies, as well as the use of the Internet, which it ends up reflecting differences between the different countries or institutions at the local level. This is a problem with many edges, the result of a wide range of factors, including literacy and education, and that can not be solved only with the installation of networks and technological infrastructure. In the specific case of this research, the authors analyze strategies to reduce the digital divide in the Infocentro of the Rocafuerte canton. Undoubtedly, the reduction of the Digital Divide in this type of organisms involves altering the causes that produce it. But, this is not a simple task, given that it is necessary to face structural problems such as the level of economic development, education, infrastructure, etc. This means that the proposed recommendations are preferably short-term, in order to provoke immediate effects, notwithstanding pointing out tendencies of action, which should be specified in State policies. Therefore, there is a generalized consensus that the battle against the Digital Divide should be carried out on all fronts and by society as a whole.