Efecto de la intervención del Estado en el sector TIC para cerrar la brecha digital en Colombia 2012-2015

Abstract

Given that there is no way of measuring the so-called digital divide between regions in the country by means of a single indicator that summarises this problem, this work provides the design of an index for this purpose that is characterised by its ease of application. We worked with the assumption, not so true in the end, that there was sufficient public information, processable without sophisticated tools, in the information systems of the state entities responsible for sectoral public policies. The authors of this paper consider the result as a good approximation to the problem; stakeholders will be able to improve the tool by requiring sector entities, especially the Ministry of ICT, to publish sectoral information in an actionable form, as required by the not-so-recent open data standard. The index was designed and calculated for the period 2012-2015 using information from the National Administrative Department of Statistics DANE, which was of better numerical and contextual quality than that of the ICT Ministry itself.