Good policy reduce the digital divide in Venezuela

Abstract

Any digital gap, regarding with underdeveloped countries, must be addressed through public policies, considering real issues and actual economic and political differences among and within such countries. Information Society, in its Tunis Commitment (2005), confirmed that the Capitalist model isN due to an ongoing project that supports economic processes of an uneven enrichment and exclusion of the majority. In the context of the Venezuelan socialist model, the problem of the digital gap transcends to a matter of infrastructure: it must be complemented with the education process and the use of the Ntechnological language, including technological appropriateness and transference. It is of top importance the community
participation, taking into account people’s needs to strengthen their cultural identity. So that the purpose of this research is to
analyze different socialist public policies in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), to be aware of
their results about the digital gap in the socialist Venezuelan society.