Information Technologies, Key Factors Of The 21St Century For Developing Countries - Núm. Special Issue, Febrero 2017 - Quid. Investigación, Ciencia y Tecnología - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 697134901

Information Technologies, Key Factors Of The 21St Century For Developing Countries

AutorJavier A. Sánchez Torres
CargoSeveral university expert courses in marketing and journalism, MA in research, is researcher in marketing
Páginas8-12
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, KEY FACTORS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FOR
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Javier A. Sánchez Torres*
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are those that allow access to the production,
processing and communication of information. The element that has revolutionized its
development in the 21st century has been the Internet. Internet is a global cloud, a new parallel
world that in less than 2 decades has changed traditional structures at all social, economic, political,
and scientific levels. The key is that it allows for new communicative realities that are open,
adaptable and integrational, being a technology that has given maturity to globalization.
According to the Word Economic Forum (2017), digital technology has spread all over the world.
Companies linked to these technologies are among the 10 most valuable companies in the world in
2017. The first five companies are: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook; the
seventh is China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
However, these technologies have not spread equally in all societies. For example, although China
has more than 721 million Internet users, the evolution and operation of certain technologies has
been foreign to global evolution given government control over the network. A similar case occurs
in India, which has 462 million: the Indian electronic market operates in different languages and
multiple infrastructure problems generate a high internal digital divide. Electronic commerce in
Latin America and Africa also has many problems related to the digital divide in African
countries only 20% of its inhabitants have access to the internet.

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