Pobreza En Colombia

1Autor: Susana Finquelievich . TIC y Reducción de la Pobreza en ALC

TIC y reducción de la pobreza
en América Latina y el Caribe

Coordinadora: Susana Finquelievich
Investigadores: Silvia Lago Martínez, Néstor Correa
Asistentes: Alejandra Jara, Ariel Vercelli
Programa de Investigaciones para la Sociedad de la Información
Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani
Facultad de CienciasSociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, IDRC

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2Autor: Susana Finquelievich . TIC y Reducción de la Pobreza en ALC

INDICE
Abstract
1. Introducción
2. Observaciones metodológicas
3. La pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe
4. Evaluación de TIC en ALC
5. Evaluación de TIC, desarrollo y reducción de la pobreza
6. Evaluación delas iniciativas de TIC y género.
7. Lecciones aprendidas
8. Caja de herramientas para el uso de TIC en el desarrollo sustentable y en la
reducción de la pobreza.
9. Bibliografía
10. Anexos
10.1. TIC en LAC: Programas nacionales de difusión de TIC
10.1.2. Gobierno digital y desarrollo sustentable
10.1.3. Ciencia y Tecnología
10.1.4. Educación y formación para la Sociedad de la Información10.1.5. Conectividad
10.1.6. Aplicaciones de TIC a la economía
10.2. Planes sociales, de desarrollo sustentable y reducción de la pobreza
10.2.1. Generación de empleo
10.2.2. Desarrollo de PYMES
10.2.3. Desarrollo comunitario / Planes alimentarios
10.2.4. Salud.
10.3. TIC y género
10.4: Siglas utilizadas.

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3Autor: Susana Finquelievich . TIC y Reducción de la Pobreza en ALCAbstract
Can Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have favorable impacts on
poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean? Can these impacts be registered in the short
and medium run? If they are positive, is this due to a sum of local micro initiatives in ICT
application, or to comprehensive governmental programs? How do ICT applications affect the
different ways in which menand women experience poverty and unemployment?
This research explores the impacts of ICT in poverty reduction in Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC), with special emphasis on a gender perspective. Its main goal is to identify how
and in which ways could ICT (particularly the Internet), though the implementation of appropriate
public strategies and policies, satisfy the population’s needs,stimulate sustainable development,
and articulate at least four social actors: governments, the academic sector, enterprises, and civil
society organizations.
Presently, LAC countries have the triple need to get proactively integrated to Information
Society (IS), in order to avoid further marginalization from the global economy, build IS in LAC
countries and regions, considering national andlocal specificities and needs, and fight the
increasing poverty and income inequality among the Regions population. As Proenza (2002) states,
“Countries that search for prosperity and social stability (...) should focus on e-for all; this means to
make accessible for all citizens the opportunities offered by ICTs for individual and social
development; and to use ICTs to empower citizens and toinvolve them in local and regional
development initiatives; and to reduce the insecurity which affects a high number of people and
societies in developing countries”.
This document analyzes the strategies to decrease poverty which have been implemented
in LAC countries, and proposes strategies to plan policies for sustainable development and poverty
reduction using IS, with a view to reducesocial and gender inequalities. The research was based
mainly on the identification of policies and strategies used by LAC governments to implement the
uses of ICTs for economic, social, and political development. Simultaneously, the researchers have
identified LAC´s strategies to encourage social development and to fight poverty. In both cases,
given the amplitude of the study field, the focus...