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RED TIC PERU: PROMOTE BROADBAND "common public good

BROADBAND "common public good
A few years ago visited the city of Kofu in Japan, as part of a program for young leaders invited by the Government of Japan, at lunch with one of the scientists on Hitachi, he explained that in the "next few years would develop what he called turtle technology ", ie a technology with high power and low power consumption.

Today was amazed at these predictions Japanese scientist, with the number of advances in processing systems, miniaturization and development of more powerful cores with low power consumption.

However, this incredible breakthrough in technology, has its counterpart in unrestricted access to new technologies for broad sectors of society, the digital divide is wide, reducing the opportunities for the population.

That is why as RED PERU ICT support the initiative of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcena, that all States ensure its population access to broadband Internet in order to foster innovation in their economies. We agree with the promotion of broadband is key to reducing the digital divide in the population of the region. "It must be a global public good ... guaranteed by the state."

We would insert the phrase "common public good", general purpose and broad, without exclusions, without monopolies, oligopolies and hegemonies, as healthy competition and right to information is vital for development

While the crisis appears to be waning, the structural, social inclusion, unemployment and poverty associated with lack of democracy in the information asymmetries and lack of synergies, weak coordination of public and private actors. It is pathetic that despite the levels of technological development in XXI century nine million people fall into poverty in 2009 because of international crisis and that the unemployment rate at year end will be 8.5%.

That is why the issue of digital inclusion, development of connectivity and build a more inclusive society cyber are crucial to the development of democratic governance and digital.

Society as the Internet transforms everyday life, social networks, the various cultural events, business, the most varied fields of personal and social life are being impacted by the development ofthe Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 perspectives. In what amounts to the transition between computers and mobile devices with processing capabilities and interaction online due to new technologies, increasingly powerful and small
The way in which public goods are generated in the network requires an explicit concern for freedom of access and the generation of new services, to help overcome limitations of individuals and blur provide various digital divides and cybercultural. The technologies extend human capabilities, expand the space and forms of social action, including production and cultural management. They also produce changes in the forms of generation, reproduction and transmission of knowledge (social).

Therefore it is decisive that the rural and urban broadband is a common public good, not only public (and state) but rather of broad access to people, Panama provides an example of this process can achieve a nation enters the twenty-first century modernity full inclusion.

GOD BLESS YOU 2010

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Comment by Anibal Aguilar Gómez on January 10, 2010 at 10:38pm
INTEGRATED COMBAT POVERTY

I agree on that broadband does not solve all the problems of poverty, however the May issue is that telephone companies charge to the poor and to communicate all overpriced either from the slums or the countryside, is Thus, we believe that one way to improve the competitiveness of the poor is that it becomes free and full access for small entrepreneurs, the poor through community telecentres can access information, to disseminate their product prices, launched the OFFER OF ITS SMALL PRODUCTS THROUGH INTERNET AND encourage the poor to access to tele-medicine and tele-education through Internet

We have been working through a very interesting experience PERU called module to tackle poverty in slums in urban India and in the field, we have achieved through massive events to achieve access to property titles, which has allowed access to water, electricity, basic services, then we have developed employment program, improving housing and universal insurance services.

That is why among other basic rights also believe that poor people need to lower costs of comuniciones telephone, radio and TV, besides fight via education, health, poverty housing ..
Comment by Alan Foo on January 10, 2010 at 1:37am
Broadband coverage is one thing. Getting the poor guys to pay for broadband is another.

So what does one do waiting for broadband?

check it out. in your cities where broadband is available, what is the percentage of the city folk population in a developing country is having broadband access at home.

The city poor are still badly off. Those slums videos I see are just disheartening and they are talking about extending broadband to rural communities.

No broadband will not solve the digital divides.
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