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The indiscreet mirror

In the route of the digital neoliberalism
From and-Mexico to e-Bucareli

 
By Octavio Islands and Fernando Gutiérrez
Number 26

The subject of Internet of no way can be considered like an exclusive subject of vanguardistas, industrial industralists or fluconazole diflucan college students who usually speculate on the possible limits of the digital economy and the social transformations that accompany the coming by the call society of the information.

Without fear to exaggerate, today it is possible to affirm that Internet must be considered like a subject of State, a question that definitively represents an interest subject I publish for the citizen.

The digital alert networks, supported outposts broadband technologies diflucan prescription great capacity, discharge quality and trustworthiness, with possibilities of leading at high speeds, signals of voice, data and video, doubtless today affect directly the same development of the economy of the nations.

The sharp development of Internet has impelled a marked technological convergence, which diflucan prescription dilutes fluconazole diflucan borders that previously prevailed buy diflucan without prescription the industry of computer science, means of collective diffusion, the telecommunications, the industry of the electronics of domestic consumption and the virtual reality. Internet inevitably reduces the technological breaches between those industries, integrating them.

Every day the interdependence becomes narrow still more that observes those diflucan prescription and each new tool and application of Internet contribute to affirm the irreversibility of the formidable integration reached, developing new and imaginative commercial activities, new possibilities to undertake buy diflucan without prescription of remote education, building in addition new responsibilities after the government buy diflucan without prescription extending their sphere of action.

The cyberspace - some specialists in cibercultura subjects indicate, like Michael Tracey- (Sanchez de Armas, 1988) 2, represents a new sphere for social, political, diflucan prescription and cultural the interaction of the diflucan prescription and the nations. One is not about the public sphere nor the diflucan prescription sphere. To the complex dimension they have been suitable emergent it upon designating like the internetacional sphere. The new digital economy remains pending. However the new diflucan prescription informative order that introduced Internet is a reality.

The digital revolution that moves Internet represents an enormous challenge for the governments of the developing countries - like Mexico, although some civil servants of the present administration insist on affirming that we are already a economy bridge -. On the diflucan prescription Kofi A. Annan, Secretary General of United diflucan prescription indicates the following thing:

The digital revolution offers to the fluconazole diflucan countries opportunities before unknown diflucan prescription growth and development (...) the countries that fall behind in the adoption of the technological innovations are in danger to see themselves diflucan prescription by other countries to which the new technologies have granted a competitive advantage " 3.

In the Report fluconazole diflucan Electronic Commerce and Development 2001. Tendencies and Executive Summary, elaborated by United Nations, allow to identify some of the main obstacles that can face the programs of diflucan prescription in the developing countries:

the deficiencies of the infrastructure of telecommunications, the rates of illiteracy, the little familiarity of good part of the population with computer science means, the ignorance of the possibilities of Internet and the same existence of inadequate normative marks " 4.

Whereas the absence of strategies diflucan prescription the matter of and-Government was a diflucan prescription of the administration of president Ernesto Zedillo, in repeated occasions president Vicente Fox is outstanding the importance that stops its administration admits the use for strategic purposes of Internet.

At the beginning of April, for example, in the ceremony in which he installed the National Council of Education for the Life and the Work (Conevyt), president Fox affirmed that fluconazole diflucan face the alarming one diflucan prescription leave behind educative of our nation, before concluding his mandate at least will be a communitarian place in each one of more than 2 thousand 500 municipalities of the country. It fluconazole diflucan possible to infer that the creation of the communitarian places, which come off the installation of the National Council of Education for the Life and the Work (Conevyt), somehow is related to the development of and-Mexico project, and corresponds to the establishment of the digital communitarian centers (CCDs).

Each communitarian place will have computers, Internet, videos, education via satellite and college student at a distance. President Fox in addition emphasized: we will use a technology of diflucan prescription world to turn to us into nation of first world.

President Vicente Fox diflucan prescription to Julio Caesar Margáin and Compéan, civil servant of the Secretariat of Communications and Transports, like the person in charge to coordinate the development of and-Mexico System.

The 22 of February of 2001 formally gave to beginning the referred governmental initiative with the beginning of the Telecentro of the diflucan prescription Durango. In agreement with Julio Caesar Margáin, and-Mexico System:

it is an integrating project that he looks for to articulate the interests of the different levels from government, of diverse organizations fluconazole diflucan public dependencies, the operators of the networks of fluconazole diflucan as well as of many public and deprived institutions, in order to extend the cover of services of health, education, commerce and government, as well as of diflucan prescription services to community " 5.

Between the main objectives of and-Mexico System they emphasize:

to reduce to diflucan prescription digital breach between Mexico and the world; between the government, the companies, the families; to increase the penetration and cover of services like telephony and Internet, as well as compatible services; to eliminate access barriers the information, the knowledge, the services and the markets; to facilitate the access to diverse services like health, education, commerce, and the services and proceedings of the government; to incorporate to the small and medians companies, as well as to the artisan microproducers and of diverse regional activities in denominated the new economy; to eliminate intermediary chains who do not add value to the productive and commercial activities of the companies; to spread our multi-cultural wealth, as well as attractive natural and the tourist ones that Mexico offers to world " 6.

Doubtless, as diflucan prescription officials recognize government who evolve like people in charge of the development of System e? Mexico, the referred governmental initiative will have to impel the communitarian development, favoring the integration of the individuals and the groups that diflucan prescription the society.

Nevertheless, we must have present that unfortunately in our country today is possible buy diflucan without prescription notice fluconazole diflucan ample breach that separates the segment of the population that has access to fluconazole diflucan of Internet, most of the society, which does diflucan prescription have any form of access to that technology.

The entrance that diflucan prescription the moment perceives million Mexican families definitively not diflucan prescription them to support the cost buy diflucan without prescription a computer, fluconazole diflucan not even to have a telephone line with the capacity necessary to transmit digital contents (data, sounds and images) through Internet. - And Mexico - in agreement with affirmations of Eljure- Youngest child, adviser of the secretary of Communications and Transports, Pedro Cerisola, which was published in the fluconazole diflucan the Universal one, does not consist of taking a computer to each home, but of taking to the services through models of cybernetic kiosks fluconazole diflucan the Digital Communitarian Centers.

And-Mexico System the project is come off and-Government, who, in agreement with Julio Caesar Margáin:

it is means so that all diflucan prescription Mexicans, in federal, regional, state and municipal the scope, can exert their right to be informed and to accede to the services that the State offers, through the Mega Network buy diflucan without prescription and-Mexico System. Also, the State, through the different instances from government, assumes the obligation to guarantee the access of all the population to the information, use and advantage of the diverse services public that offer. Within those services the population will be diflucan prescription to realise consultations and proceedings through the Mega Network, diflucan prescription the access to information with respect to the exercise of the Budget of Debits of the Federation, to realise proceedings like the declaration of taxes, request of permissions and licenses, passports and any proceeding, in fluconazole diflucan a way that the terminal, the kiosk or a computer, becomes in a window of attention to citizens, being transparent and making agile services " 7.

In agreement with Abraham Sotelo Nava, adviser in Technology of Information of diflucan prescription Head of the Office of the Presidency for the Governmental and Coordinating Innovation of the Program and-Government, subsystem of the National System and-Mexico, diflucan prescription is a vertical strategy within and-Mexico initiative, which diflucan prescription the intention to modify the form radically as the government communicates with the citizenship and serves to satisfy public needs:

it is the continuous innovation diflucan prescription the services, the participation of the citizens and the form to govern by means of the transformation of the diflucan prescription and internal relations through the technology, the Internet and new mass media. In other words, and-Government implies a transformation of the governmental function introducing new values of communication, cooperation and interactive participation for the governmental decision making (G2C: buy diflucan without prescription Government-citizen). Of diflucan prescription way the strategies of transparency, performance and surrender of accounts to the interior of government (G2G will modify: Relations government-government) so that this one acts buy diflucan without prescription efficiently buy diflucan without prescription the presentation of the services and the information management, reinforcing its leadership in front of the society. Finally, the relations government-companies (G2B government-business) also will be redesigned looking for the active participation and it jeopardize of the sector deprived in governmental modernization " 8.

During year 2001, and-Mexico System was object of ample questionings. First of August, journalist F. Bartholomew, in his column Greater Temple of the Reformation newspaper denounced the poor obtained results:

To almost five months diflucan prescription which buy diflucan without prescription consultation forums were realised on and-Mexico program, nor who remembers diflucan prescription which she assumed was going to be a great fluconazole diflucan to celebrate transactions with diflucan prescription new government. The communications are there, in Internet as it must fluconazole diflucan being, but the Secretariat of Communications and Transports of Pedro Cerisola just does not give lights on the subject. The worrisome thing of the subject is that, and when the reality even assumes that and-Mexico would be something as well as the front door from the government to modernity, indicates that the foxistas have not found the locksmith abra who it. Because a thing is to try to offer proceedings, access to the information, education and until services of health through Internet and very different other that the network of networks only serves to be another route of diffusion of the governmental workings that at the moment already is made, until the fatigue. Still they are in time the boys of Pedro Cerisola of not committing the same error that the Contraloría with that ciber white elephant called Compranet. It is enough of ciber rolls " 9.

In the summer of fluconazole diflucan professor Darrell M. West, investigator of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, the United States, coordinated an investigation regarding the development of the programs of and-Government, from buy diflucan without prescription a total of 2.288 WWW sites of governmental institutions of 196 countries.

The maximum buy diflucan without prescription of qualification 88 and these buy diflucan without prescription buy diflucan without prescription variables that were considered for the development of the referred investigation: proportionate services in line by the government, policies of privacía and security, availability of resources of information in line for handicapped buy diflucan without prescription language, publicity, equipment functions of entailment with the citizen, integration of the resources of the government in Internet.

The WWW sites of the government of Mexico reached a total of 33 points, and Mexico was located in the fortieth eighth position. Better qualifications obtained the WWW sites of Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, El Salvador, Brazil.

To make matters worse, in agreement with the affirmations contained in the text System of Governmental Electronic Proceedings < http://www.tramitanet.gob.mx >, which was published in number 2 of the Bulletin of Computer buy diflucan without prescription Policy (2002), is possible fluconazole diflucan infer the sensible indeferencia of spokesmen of the Secodam to and-Mexico System, to the Subsystem and-Government, the Secretariat of Communications and Transports and to the Office of the Presidency for the Governmental Innovation:

The federal government started up diflucan prescription System diflucan prescription Governmental Electronic Proceedings (Tramitanet), diflucan prescription objective is to provide to diflucan prescription citizenship diflucan prescription mechanisms of information consultation on diflucan prescription the governmental proceedings, as well as to realise them in buy diflucan without prescription form (...) Tramitanet, one of the fundamental components of the Program of Electronic Government, designed by the Secretariat of Contraloría and Desarrollo Administrativo (SECODAM) in coordination with all the dependencies and organizations of diflucan prescription Administration Federal APF), represents a effort of transparency and deregulation in the governmental management, to inhibit acts of corruption and discretion between the servants public and counted on the initial participation of the Secretariat of Gobernación (SEGOB), the Secretariat of Economy (), the Secretariat of Educación Pública (SEP), and the Mexican Institute of Seguro Social (IMSS) 10.

Of diflucan prescription referred text it is possible to deduce that the spokesmen of Secodam give to that secretariat the design of the Program of Electronic Government. In what the Program of Electronic Government is distinguished, designed by the Secodam, of the Subsystem and-Government, who is in charge of the Office of the diflucan prescription for the Governmental Innovation? There is duplicity of programs? One is a problem of communication between both governmental institutions?

With exceeded reason outstanding journalist Naief Yehya, in his recent collaboration for Libres11 Letters, affirms that the construction of the digital government represents more of the pending modernizations in Mexico.

Wednesday of April, as the Senate did not authorize the trip diflucan prescription it tried to realise president diflucan prescription Fox to the foreigner, through diflucan prescription videophone conference Head of State participated in the V Conference of Governmental Leaders, act that was organized by Microsoft. It agrees to remember the synonymous ones of Mexican that diflucan prescription years ago in line briefed Microsoft in some of its dictionaries.

Thursday 18 of April, in the section of Finances of the Universal one was published a note with the following title: Microsoft, to the rescue of and-Mexico:

Mexico and Microsoft made specific a collaboration agreement to develop 2 thousand 473 digital communitarian centers, that will integrate and-Mexico project, with which it looks for to give access to diflucan prescription Internet in all the country in the 2006. The agreement was signed by this Wednesday in a meeting between the Mexican secretary diflucan prescription communications Pedro Cerisola, and the president of Microsoft, Rick Belluzzo, within the framework of the last day of the V Conference of Governmental Leaders, that organizes the company (...) After the company/signature, Margáin said that this agreement register within the ambitious and ample project of and-Mexico with which it looks for to place to the Mexican nation within the computer science societies of world " 12.

Which is the following step? Perhaps the government of Vicente Fox will delegate in diflucan prescription the responsibility to develop to the diflucan prescription Vestibule? of? Vestibules of Mexico?

With Treaties diflucan prescription Bucareli, the government of Alvaro Obregón obtained the recognition of the diflucan prescription States. With the recent negotiations of Seattle, the government of the change was able to be located enters the computer science societies of the world.

Lamentable what that the present government systematically resorts to the total buy diflucan without prescription to the foreign investment in each buy diflucan without prescription line of our economy. To the ample relation of concessions that has imposed us the footpath of the neoliberalism, today it is possible to add the power ones, the bank, the telecommunications, Internet and the education at a distance. In fact there is course in the change?


Notes:

2 Michael Tracey Sees itself: The decline: illusion and declivity in the revolution of the communications. In Miguel Angel Sanchez de Armas (1998): Comunicación and overall nature. Tests of cultural ecology. Mexico, Foundation Manuel Buendía, pp. 85-102.
3 Report on Electronic Commerce and Development 2001. Tendencies and Executive Summary. United Nations, p.3. Available in line in: < http://www.www.unctad.org/ecommerce/ > Date of consultation: first of April, 2002.
4 Idem.
5 Julio Caesar Margáin and Compeán: And-Mexico System: Technological convergence with Fairness. In Stock market. May 2001, P. 3
6 Ibidem, p.11.
7 Ibidem.
8 Abraham Sotelo Nava: And-Government: Strategy for the Innovation in the Federal Government. In Stock market. May 2001, p.15.
9 F. Bartholomew. Greater Temple. In the Reformation, 1 of August, 2001, p.22
10 In INEGI: System of Governmental Electronic Proceedings. Bulletin of Computer science Policy. Year XXV.Número 2, 2002, p.1.
11 Naief Yehya: Governments without walls. In Free Letters. Number 39. March of 2002, pp. 30-32.
12 Microsoft, to the rescue of and-Mexico. 18 of April, Section of Finances of the Universal one.


Dr. Octavio Islands
Mtro. Fernando Gutiérrez
Investigators of the Department of Communication of the Technological one of Monterrey, Campus Been of Mexico, Mexico

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