Medición de la brecha digital: el caso del plan vive digital en el departamento del meta, Colombia (2010-2012).

Abstract

Throughout the history of the territory in which the Republic of Colombia lies today and in which there is a time horizon of human presence of 16,000 years (MINTIC, 2009), people have experienced great transformations in the way of communicating and carrying information from one place to another - understanding information as the first stage and a fundamental part of any process of communication—, which for a long period of time in Colombia and up to (1865) when the first telegraph message was transmitted in today's savannah of Bogotá D.C., did not have the means to be transported over distances significant in a short time. At the time of the Conquest (late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century) and later in the colonial era, the need to create mechanisms to carry and bring information between peoples, and exchange with other countries and continents, find your most innovative solution in the first infrastructures nationals of today's postal mail through the Correo de las Indias (1538) (MINTIC, 2009), which although being a manual, slow and inefficient process seen from the XXI century, was a novel and useful form of communication, which together with subsequent development of the printing press, it would revolutionize various fields, from war strategy until the expansion of civil rights.