Madrid – The technological development in Latin America had a “great leap,” but there is still mitigate the so-called digital divide, as highlighted on Tuesday several experts in telecommunications and Internet in a forum held at Casa America in Madrid.
The Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Association of Research Centers and Telecommunications Companies, Pablo Bello Arellano, said there was a “quantitative and qualitative leap in democratization of access to technology” in the region.
Arellano explained that the penetration of mobile telephony in Latin America is greater than 100% and the number of Internet users in the last seven years has been multiplied by a hundred.
However, the expert warned of the “challenge” of the current government, since one in two Latin American does not use internet and two out of three do not have internet in your home.
According to Arellano, Latin America must make “an effort” to bridge the digital divide, the gap between citizens who have internet access and those who do not.
“It is important that technological development involving all actors,” he said and eliminate these differences, Arellano assured that there will be an investment of $ 400 billion on the continent by 2020.
In turn, the journalist specializing in technology issues Esther Paniagua stressed the improvement of telecommunications in the region and referred to her as “resilient” for his ability to “work with few resources.”
Paniagua passed the panel concerns of some young people in relation to technological development as they are the “monopoly services companies, governments which increase access and Internet censorship and control in social networks”.
The director of Telefónica Open Future, Ana Insured, said that in Latin America “there is a lot of talent and is a society receptive to technological innovation.”
Insured bet by “identifying talent and push its promotion and development to evolve locally” and that this is exported to the world.
The panel ‘Ibero-America in the Digital Age’ was held within the forum ‘Global Latin America’, a forum for discussion in the House of America of Madrid parallel to the X World Economic Forum on Latin America, to be held 6-8 May in Mexico and bringing together five leaders, 20 ministers from 11 countries and 500 business leaders
Topics:. Latin America , Internet , Technology
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