Abstract

GOMEZ, Ricardo  and  BARON PORRAS, Luis Fernando. Public access to the Internet and social change: an experience in El Carmen de Bolivar, between silence and hope. CS [online]. 2010, n.6, pp.221-254. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i6.467.

This paper presents a case study of public access venues to Information and Communi- cation Technologies (ICT) in the small municipality of Carmen de Bolívar, a town in Northern Colombia. The case study assesses the contribution of public access to ICT to community development, in a region that has not only a long strong tradition of com- munity organization for social development, but also a long history of violence that has weakened its social fabric.

Keywords : ICT; Social change; Community organization; Communication.

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