INVESTIGADORES
DE ORTUZAR Maria Graciela
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
IMPACTO SOICAL DE LAS TICS EN LA GOBERNABILIDAD DEMOCRÁTICA
Autor/es:
DE ORTÚZAR, M. G
Lugar:
Pinamar
Reunión:
Encuentro; ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DYSES; 2009
Institución organizadora:
DYSES
Resumen:
Social impact of the ICTs on democratic governance:
adaptative preference or equal informational capabilities?
M. Graciela de Ortúzar, UNLP-UNPA
graceortuzar@hotmail.com
The information and communication technologies - ICTs- would allow the
generation of new public spaces (Habermas) and new public policy
networks to improve governance by applying new practices and
knowledges. It is supposed that these new practices encourage deliberative
and participative processes, that is processes where citizens have the
opportunity to get involved with the decisions of the government that
determine their lives. In that way governability and governance would be
consolidated in order to promote human development. Now, in our Latin
American context- caracterized by huge social and economic inequalities,
producted by a history of dictatorships and formal democracies- the
realization of access to political equality, towards a model of real democracy
by the use of ICTs, would be a condition - in my opinion, and here it is my
hypothesis- to the appliction of an ethical and normative framework that
determine non -adaptitive preferences but equal opportunities to the access of
knowledge and information as public goods. In other words, nondiscrimination
of informational capabilities, and equal and social impact of
the use of ICTs.
These new criteria would allow us to consider one of the key problems and
disadvantages of the model, the digital gap. We suggest integral policies to
the development of basic capabilities and specific strategies for equality acess
to capabilities and digital literacy. The new normative framework would
generate institutional changes in rules, principles, values, towards
transparence (public information, electronic vote, etc); efficiency ( eadministration,
State reform); confidentiality of the information and new
services ( e- services, etc)- Moreover, it would allow the creation of a new
space for a social active participation (e- society) encouraging networks and
new ways of communication, and allowing new access to information and
knowledge in public policies. In particular, it would generate equal
opportunities and the development of a critical autonomous citizen, who
would be free to make a critical revision of the rules and principles of the
normative framework towards the development of the society.