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The Transition Toward a Knowledgeable Society in Latin America and the Social Responsibility Embedded in its Mechanism

The Transition Toward a Knowledgeable Society in Latin America and the Social Responsibility Embedded in its Mechanism
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Author(s): Heberto Ochoa-Morales (UNM-Gallup Campus, USA)
Copyright: 2002
Pages: 3
Source title: Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-930708-39-6.ch143
ISBN13: 9781930708396
EISBN13: 9781466641358

Abstract

In Latin America the proliferation of regional and multilateral agreements with integration as a purpose have generated a high flow of goods, services, and investments among these countries. From the economic perspective, the outcome is trade and, therefore stimulus to economic growth. Information technology is a relevant parameter in this endeavor. The ‘digital gap’ between industrialized and less developed countries (LDC) is greater than the ‘standard of living’ between them. The uneven distribution of wealth among and within countries, and the lack of communication infrastructure and computer based power, situate them at transitional stage within the ‘knowledge-based society’ which emanates social changes and therefore new roles to be achieved by private and public institutions within the framework of social responsibility.

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