ICT CONSTITUTE AN EACH TIME MORE POWERFUL INSTRUMENT TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL MARKETS; PROMOTE POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY; IMPROVE THE PROVISION OF BASIC SERVICES, IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS, INNOVATE HEALTH AND ENHANCE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT.
impact-ict-education-health-company-government-venezuela-worldBUT WITHOUT INNOVATIVE ICT POLICIES, MANY PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY THE POOR, WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
Information and Communications Technologies are called, hereinafter ICT, the set of technologies that allow the acquisition, production, storage, treatment, communication, recording and presentation of information, in the form of voice, images and data
contained in signals of nature acoustic, optical or electromagnetic. ICTs include electronics as the base technology that supports the development of telecommunications, computing and audiovisuals.
ELEMENTS THAT MAKE IT UP
Personal Computers
Servers
Internet
Mobile Devices (cell phones, GPS, PDAs)
Communication networks
Audiovisual devices (televisions, webcams, DVDs) Robots
The “digital divide”
Divides the educated from the illiterate, The rich from the poor, The youth from the old people, urban dwellers from rural dwellers and, differentiating women from men at all times.
Lack of privacy
Isolation
Fraud Reduces jobs
ICT CHARACTERISTICS
ELECTRONIC TRASH
Recycling
Equipment
reuse Metal extraction
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, IS THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH BASED ON THE THEORY OF SYSTEMS THAT PROVIDES THE EDUCATOR WITH THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, AS WELL AS, THE TECHNOLOGY SEEKS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESSES SEEKING THE EFFICIENT LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND THE MEANING OF LEARNING. DISTANCE LEARNING VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ACCESS TO INFORMATION: THE INTERNET AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTANT TRAINING FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS DIVERSE SOURCES TO DISCOVER KNOWLEDGE
REASONS TO USE ICT IN EDUCATION
I) Digital literacy of students: all must acquire basic knowledge in the use of ICT.
II) Productivity: Take advantage of the advantages they provide when carrying out activities such as preparing notes and exercises, searching for information, communicating (e-mail), disseminating information (Weblogs, the center's website and teachers), library management….
II) Innovate in teaching practices: Take advantage of the new didactic possibilities offered by ICTs to ensure that students carry out better learning and reduce school failure
ICT IN EDUCATION - CONCLUSIONS
Permanent and active technological evolution requires a transformation in educational systems, the university must train human resources with an ethical and moral level at the same time that they are capable of developing and applying their own technologies necessary to meet social demands and, in this way, overcome the situation of being simple importers and consumers of information and technologies.
The teaching and learning processes are singular and complex communication processes, in which it is not possible to separate the didactic issues from the communicative ones, not only because it is extremely difficult, but because they must inevitably complement each other.
The application of ICTs in the different areas of higher education will make it possible to make appropriate decisions that guarantee cost-benefit relationships and the optimization of their massive use.
Informatics in the school environment is a necessary and urgent action. Teachers must incorporate this new and revolutionary resource into the curriculum and transfer it to students as an irreplaceable tool at the service of a transformative and beneficial teaching.
Teacher training must include continuous updating by and for the use of ICT in their daily practice and their adaptation to this computerized environment.
The use of the computer as a tool that will not only allow the creation of stimulating learning environments for the construction of knowledge, but also save time and effort, which implies new ways of thinking and doing.
Interactive NICTs, the result of the association of computing, communications, robotics and the handling of images will revolutionize, sooner rather than later, current learning strategies and scenarios.
The main component for progress will be the development of entirely new courses and curricula of study. The essential points of the educational reform then go through the training of teachers and the development of new learning materials, using the New Information and Communication Technologies.
Electronic government is considered as a state development model that consists of the use of ICT in internal government processes and in external processes of interaction between the state and citizens, which lead to the improvement of public services, to the strengthening of administrative responsibility, increased transparency, the democratization of information, citizen participation and even social control.
Electronic government is the combination of ICT with the capacity of public management to bring government services closer to the citizen who must obtain identification cards, licenses, medical certificates, passports, solvencies, items, in addition to paying taxes, front duties, basic services, among others. The effective use of technology allows citizens to have better access to government information, increases the transparency of public management and, above all, plays a fundamental social role while using the information highway.
Today, ICTs cover the entire value chain of a business, serving as support for decision-making, in a much faster and more accurate way. Additionally, the generation of more information throughout the development of a company's activities makes it possible to use more variables to be able to analyze or control a business more accurately.
Used well, ICTs allow companies to produce more quantity, faster, of better quality, and in less time. They allow us to be competitive in the market, and have free time for our family. Take as an example the area of Marketing (Marketing) and Communication. The main objective of the companies is to sell their products on the market. And to achieve this they first need to present the product to their customers so that they know it (marketing). ICTs make it easy to present your product to customers and drive sales in many different ways.
ICTs are a key element to make our work more productive:
Streamlining communications,
Sustaining teamwork,
Managing stocks,
Performing financial analysis, and
Promoting our products in the market.
E-mail, through it, allows us to send all kinds of information and communications to our clients. We can send you a product catalog, a Christmas greeting or a newsletter, at virtually no cost.
A website where we can display our products allows interested customers to easily find our products on the Internet and contact us, it also allows us to transmit our company philosophy to the world.
A computerized customer management system (CRM) allows us to better understand our customers, analyzing their habits and purchasing history.
Online banking, online banking, e-banking or, generically, electronic banking, is the banking that can be accessed through the Internet. They can be entities with physical branches or that only operate over the Internet or by telephone.
It is defined as the application of Information and Communication Technologies in the wide range of aspects that affect health care, from diagnosis to monitoring of patients, through the management of the organizations involved in these activities. In the specific case of citizens, eHealth provides them with considerable advantages in terms of information, and even favors obtaining alternative diagnoses. In general, for professionals, eHealth is related to an improvement in access to relevant information, associated with the main medical journals and associations, with assisted electronic prescribing and, finally, with global accessibility to personal medical data through of the Computerized Clinical History ».
TELEDUCATION:
Prevention
Training and education of professionals
TELEMEDICINE, means Medicine practiced at a
distance, includes both diagnosis and treatment, as well as medical education. It is a technological resource that enables the optimization of health care services, saving time and money and facilitating access to distant areas for specialist care. Another utility provided by the use of the transmission of medical data over appropriate networks is education, where medical and nursing students can learn semiology
remotely, supported by their teacher and with the presence of the patient.
TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS
TELERADIOLOGY
TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS
TELEPATHOLOGY
Transmission of images of pathological anatomy through telecommunication systems, for consultation, diagnostic research or teaching purposes.
Kinetic Telepathology
There are 3 types:
Dynamic
telepathology Static telepathology
Remote monitoring of the
We count on all of you to ensure that access to information and knowledge in health is free and equitable and is an integral part of the development of nations so that each person lives their life with respect and dignity.
Universal access to health services in the Information Society
EXAMPLE TELEMEDICINE - MEDICARRO
In Venezuela, as a result of an alliance between the National Center for Technological Innovation (CENIT) and the Simón Bolívar University, MEDICARRO was invented, which works as a personal computer connected through the Internet with a national Electronic Medical Record and a network of experts. “It has the ability to acquire and manipulate medical data directly, particularly skin images, otoscopy and ophthalmology. It can acquire cardiological data and can be coupled with other medical equipment according to the need ”. For its manufacture, a strategic alliance was established with a medical surgical furniture company and a computer company, in order to reduce costs. The project has been technically validated by government entities, and is awaiting support for its industrial production.
EXAMPLE OF HEALTH FOR RURAL AREAS
Free of charge, SOS Telemedicina para Venezuela offers teleconsultation and remote diagnosis services delivered by qualified professors of different medical specialties to health personnel, so that they can make better diagnoses and improve the quality of care for their patients. In addition, the program offers distance education, job opportunities in cooperative scientific research projects carried out at the UCV, access to virtual health libraries contracted by the university, and health education to the communities.
Venezuelan Infocentros Development Plan that by decree began in 2001 by the Venezuelan government for Internet access, in order to facilitate the use of these technologies to traditionally excluded sectors of the population. The National Infocentros strategy includes the so-called infopoints: which would be Internet access booths, equipped with a computer and Internet access that are located in various locations where programs, projects and services directed at the population in health areas operate, education, economy, work and government.
The Movement for Integral Popular Education and Social Promotion Fe y AlegrÌa, together with IBM from Venezuela, have carried out the Little Explorer Project for preschool education classrooms since 2000, promoting the inclusion of children in institutions located in areas of scarce economic resources in the use of new technologies and information, this is a project that promotes educational informatics adapting to the Venezuelan curriculum. In this project they cooperate with Fe y Alegría, IBM, Andrés Bello Catholic University and the Voluntary Dividend for the Community.
AVEPANE (Venezuelan Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional Children). He developed a program called Compukids. This is a Multimedia Computing program designed to strengthen children's intellectual growth as an aspect of integral development. Its main objectives are:
That the child interact favorably with the computer
Mention the different uses of the computer to improve your life
Increase your self-confidence by mastering this tool
Develop facility to use both technology and IT vocabulary
Expand your cognitive skills and creative abilities through exploration and active learning
The Asociación Civil Bibliotecas Virtuales de Aragua (ACBVA) is a project created to give access to new digital technologies and spread the domain of technological tools in the state, forming the first intranet of knowledge in the country, called Intraragua. Among the services provided by these Virtual Libraries are: Research area, Reading Room, Locker area, Children's areas, Related areas, Simulators area, Training, Guided Tours and Disability area. This last area is a special room for those who lack any part of their body (disabled), so it has necessary adaptations that help them to facilitate the use of said technology.
INITIATIVES IN EDUCATION
Centro de Formación Digital (CFD) PlusValía, is a non-profit civil association that aims to fight against disability, taking education as a fundamental element. Pay attention to people with quadriplegia, paraplegia, hearing impairment, visual impairment, and invisible disability. Among its objectives are: Education of the person in case of early disability, re-education in case of late disability, fight for awareness of the environment that surrounds these people, development of educational technology. This Center is directed by the retired Mathematician of Higher Education Marin Damianoff.
Braille Project (Difficulty to see): This project has among its objectives the education of the visually impaired and blind. The main objective is the development of: Blind Deaf Telephone as a communication system, development of the Morse-Braille code, Learning Braille, software whose objective is to teach braille code to visually impaired and sighted, it is experimented to teach deaf adolescents to read using code braille, Calculator for the blind and deaf-blind (Software Calculo Ciego), ProceCiego (word processor for the blind).
Special Project (Difficulty to Understand): It is the most ambitious because it involves software development to solve major problems that affect the education of people who show difficulty in learning. As the center does not have psychopedagogues, they work in conjunction with the psychopedagogues of the special education schools. This transforms PlusValía into a software development center for Action Research with immediate applications to problems.
SOFTWARE EXAMPLES DEVELOPED BY THE CFD
Virtual Hands: Aimed at all people with extreme movement difficulties, it allows a deaf and dumb quadriplegic to navigate on a computer without any restrictions. It has a module developed for Visual Basic programs. For speaking quadriplegics (who can use their voice) it accepts voice command, has built-in 50 voice commands, works in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. The user's imagination is their only limitation.
SOFTWARE EXAMPLES DEVELOPED BY THE CFD
Virtual Chess: It allows a person with motor difficulties to play chess, it is an interface between a professional chess program and a voice processor, it has an adaptation module for deaf and dumb quadriplegics, it uses Virtual Hands technology to move the pieces, allows the use of voice processors to make plays, you need Grand Master Chees to operate.
Government Online. One of those that the country has experienced is the emergence of Government Entities on the Internet. Information inquiries, dissemination of projects, news, official gazettes and all kinds of information are some of the benefits offered by ICT in the government sphere.
Online procedures. Thanks to ICT, the Venezuelan Government offers all citizens the possibility of quickly and safely carrying out procedures that in the past took a long time or were cumbersome:
Tax Declaration (Seniat)
Passport Application (Saime)
Social Security Information Consultation (IVSS)
Electoral Registry Information Consultation (CNE)
System for Declaration of customs procedures ASYCUDA (Seniat)
Electronic Passport. Our country joins the global standardization of the identification document, the electronic passport. Through the application of ICT, the Venezuelan Government has implemented the provision of electronic passports to all citizens and updating the immigration platform to comply with world standards for reading this type of passport in ports and airports.
Electronic Certificate. The Venezuelan Government, relying on ICTs, will implement the electronic card as of 2010, which they classify as the safest in the world and impossible to falsify. It will have visible data engraved by laser, which will make it difficult for the documents to be forged (number, date of birth and issue, marital status, signature and fingerprint). Likewise, the Saime will incorporate the information on a chip integrated into the card that will be available for reading in the different organizations and institutions. The electronic card will have a 72-kilobyte chip that will store information about the person, such as names, surnames, eye color, skin and hair, address, among others.
Satelite Simón Bolívar, contemplates covering all those national needs that have to do with telephony, information transmission, access and transmission of messages over the Internet, especially in those places where commercial telecommunications companies have not developed due to low population density. Likewise, it intends to consolidate the programs and projects executed by the State, guaranteeing reaching the most remote places, placing in those places connection points with the satellite, in such a way that education, diagnosis and information are guaranteed in real time to that population that You may not have access to any means of communication and training.
VII National Agricultural Census. In 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands carried out the Agricultural Census in an automated way using the most modern technological tools, both for data capture and processing and for telecommunications. This made it possible to collect a large amount of information that would not have been possible without the use of ICT, and in a fraction of the time.
XIV National Population and Housing Census. In 2011, the National Institute of Statistics will carry out the Population Census in an automated way, for which they estimate to use various ICT tools, including mobile technologies. It will be a Census framed in technological advances, which will allow to record more information and have it available for analysis in less time than using traditional paper techniques.
The census is a statistical operation aimed at obtaining data on all the elements that make up the universe under study, and which generate information, mainly of a structural type. In the case of national population and housing censuses, it is a question of quantifying and revealing the main characteristics of the dwellings, households and persons in a country.
CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING
It is a statistical investigation that consists of collecting, processing, analyzing and disseminating data on the demographic, educational, social and economic characteristics of the population and on the conditions of the dwellings in which it habitually resides, on a specific date and place.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS CENSUS 2011
Use of digitized cartography as a basis for the census survey.
Use of the digitized Register of Real Estate Units, in order to guarantee the load per enumerator and the exact location of the family dwellings to be registered.
Use of Mobile Capture Devices as advanced technology for collecting the Register of Real Estate Units and for capturing census information.
Transmission of census information collected daily, to collection or collection centers, by wire and wireless.
Obtaining a pre-validated database, which guarantees less time in processing.
Use of the INE website, so that users can self-manage the census information required by them.
The use of advanced technology in the collection and dissemination of census information will constitute a milestone in the history of censuses in Venezuela and Latin America. This is where the most important challenge of the XIV Census 2011 in our country lies…..
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Olga García de Rangel
Graduated in statistics from the Central University of Venezuela.
Master in Computer Science, Information System option from Southern Univerity, La - USA-.
Associate Professor at the Simón Bolívar University of Venezuela in the Department of Engineering and Systems in the Matter of Information Systems until 2007.
Currently Professor at the Central University of Venezuela, in the Matter of Information Systems.
Head of the Information Systems Chair until 2009 at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences - School of Statistics. Central University of Venezuela She
currently holds the position of Computer Operations Coordinator at the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela.
