Incidencia de las TIC´s en la reducción de la informalidad sectorial de los microestablecimientos en Bogotá

Abstract

The research project is located in the core line Economy and Humanism and aims to analyze the impact of ICTs in reducing informality for micro-establishments located in the city of Bogotá, this research is justified because in Colombia less than 31 % of the 33,000 micro-establishments accounted for by DANE through the Micro-establishments survey, use some type of communication technology, affecting their productivity, competitiveness and therefore their income. Likewise, this problem is included in the objectives of the Sustainable Development Plan proposed by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda, which seeks to reduce the digital divide in the poorest communities to improve their businesses through government financial aid and financing programs. The development of the project will have three stages: in the first place, a characterization of these places will be carried out, which include up to nine workers and less than three branches, during the period 2014-2016 to evaluate the access to communication technologies and information from indicators such as: use of ICT goods and services, internet access according to type of connection, according to speed and activity performed. Secondly, an econometric model will be developed using a logit mix methodology, which measures the incidence of ICTs on the dependent variable informal sector of micro-establishments using other control variables such as financing, investments and labor productivity, the information that is will be used is based on the Micro-establishment survey applied by DANE. Finally, a strategy is proposed to incentivize the use of these technologies to increase productivity, competitiveness and reduce informality, the social objective of which is to improve the income of these micro-establishments and, in turn, of workers. The social impact of this research is to demonstrate that access to the use of ICTs, to a certain extent, will improve the productive conditions of many informal macro-establishments, which in turn could increase the income of these productive units. as well as the salary conditions of workers that improve their living conditions.