Editorial

In this latest installment, the Bulletin Library available to all colleagues three articles and two essays.

LA GLOBALIZACIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN EN LOS PAÍSES DE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA

Podemos considerar la Globalización como el fenómeno más relevante y definitorio de nuestra sociedad contemporánea. El concepto que desde una perspectiva exclusivamente económica alude a la internacionalización de los mercados, se caracteriza por una serie de factores como la eliminación de fronteras en los ámbitos financieros y comerciales, la libre circulación de capitales, servicios y personas, así como interacción entre países y regiones del mundo a través de las nuevas infraestructuras de comunicación.El proceso de globalización de la sociedad ha precisado de una infraestructura que lo sustentase. La posibilidad de acceder y disponer de la información desde cualquier parte del planeta, así como la facilidad para compartirla y distribuirla no hubiera sido posible sin la creación y desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC), de tal manera que la globalización es un fenómeno totalmente ligado a lo que se ha venido denominando ―Sociedad de laInformación‖.

Development and poverty alleviation

Society and information economy have changed every aspect of our life in society: the economy, trade, business, industry, media, education, health, our entire culture. More than twenty years, Dr. Jerrold Maxmen2 said all medical functions may be performed in future by a team of paraprofessionals and computers: the clinical histories, physical examinations, laboratory tests, diagnoses, treatment and prognosis, and preventive functions, public health, research, education and health administration.The consequence is that doctors have less political power and consumers more opportunity to control the operation and structure of the health care system.

Access, attitudes and training in information technologies and evidence-based medicine among medical students at University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences.

Background: The Medical Education Partnership Initiative, has helped to mitigate the digital divide in Africa. The aim of the study was to assess the level of access, attitude, and training concerning meaningful use of electronic resources and EBM among medical students at an African medical school. Methods: The study involved medical students at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare. The needs assessment tool consisted of a 21-question, paper-based, voluntary and anonymous survey. Results: A total of 61/67 (91%), responded to the survey. 60% of the medical students were ‘third-year medical students’. Among medical students, 85% of responders had access to digital medical resources, but 54% still preferred printed medical textbooks. Although 25% of responders had received training in EBM, but only 7% found it adequate. 98% of the participants did not receive formal training in journal club presentation or analytical reading of medical literature, but 77 % of them showed interest in learning these skills. Conclusion: Lack of training in EBM, journal club presentation and analytical reading skills have limited the impact of upgraded technology in enhancing the level of knowledge. This impact can be boosted by developing a curriculum with skills necessary in using EBM.

The Promise of Access: Hope and Inequality in the Information Economy

In 2013, a series of posters began appearing in Washington, DC’s Metro system. Each declared “The internet: Your future depends on it” next to a photo of a middle-aged black Washingtonian, and an advertisement for the municipal government’s digital training resources. This hopeful discourse is familiar but where exactly does it come from? And how are our public institutions reorganized to approach the problem of poverty as a problem of technology? The Clinton administration’s ‘digital divide’ policy program popularized this hopeful discourse about personal computing powering social mobility, positioned internet startups as the ‘right’ side of the divide, and charged institutions of social reproduction such as schools and libraries with closing the gap and upgrading themselves in the image of internet startups. After introducing the development regime that builds this idea into the urban landscape through what I call the ‘political economy of hope’, and tracing the origin of the digital divide frame, this dissertation draws on three years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in startups, schools, and libraries to explore how this hope is reproduced in daily life, becoming the common sense that drives our understanding of and interaction with economic inequality and reproduces that inequality in turn. I show that the hope in personal computing to power social mobility becomes a method of securing legitimacy and resources for both white émigré technologists and institutions of social reproduction struggling to understand and manage the persistent poverty of the information economy. I track the movement of this common sense between institutions, showing how the political economy of hope transforms them as part of a larger development project. This dissertation models a new, relational direction for digital divide research that grounds the politics of economic inequality with an empirical focus on technologies of poverty management. It demands a conceptual shift that sees the digital divide not as a bug within the information economy, but a feature of it.

Análisis de las barreras para la unificación de una Historia Clínica Electrónica -HCE- en Colombia

Objetivo: Identificar las barreras para la unificación de una Historia Clínica Electrónica –HCE- en Colombia. Materiales y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio cualitativo. Se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a profesionales y expertos de 22 instituciones del sector salud, de Bogotá y de los departamentos de Cundinamarca, Santander, Antioquia, Caldas, Huila, Valle del Cauca. Resultados: Colombia se encuentra en una estructuración para la implementación de la Historia Clínica Electrónica Unificada -HCEU-. Actualmente, se encuentra en unificación en 42 IPSs públicas en el departamento de Cundinamarca, el desarrollo de la HCEU en el país es privado y de desarrollo propio debido a las necesidades particulares de cada IPS. Conclusiones: Se identificaron barreras humanas, financieras, legales, organizacionales, técnicas y profesionales en los departamentos entrevistados. Se identificó que la unificación de la HCE depende del acuerdo de voluntades entre las IPSs del sector público, privado, EPSs, y el Gobierno Nacional.

Solução doméstica para televisão digital

Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Encenação digital: dissertação

Dissertação submetida à Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teatro - especialização em Encenação.

As fontes jornalísticas na era digital: relações e encenação

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)

Digital Inequality

Unpicking and understanding if and how the web is linked to inequality means: Recognising that the access divide is not over, Thinking beyond hardware, Thinking beyond demographic variables, Developing a conceptual and theoretical toolkit, Beyond technological determinism, Co-constitution, Intersectionality, Technical capital

Edició digital d'imatges amb el GIMP. 'Edición digital de imágenes con el GIMP'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación. Se incluyen imágenes de capturas de pantalla del ordenador sobre el uso de GIMP. Documento sujeto a una licencia de Reconocimiento-No comercial-Compartir con la misma licencia 3.0 España de Creative Commons

Virtualidad del hipertexto en el periodismo digital.

Estudiar el origen y el funcionamiento del hipertexto. Analizar los cambios comunicativos que trae consigo la estructura hipertextual de Internet. Evaluar las posibilidades comunicativas que el hipertexto ofrece al periodismo en red y analizar el alcance social del nuevo modelo de comunicación generado por el hipertexto y el periodismo digital. Se ha trabajado únicamente de forma teórica, y el trabajo se divide en cuatro capítulos: del texto al hipertexto, ya que se defiende que no se puede hablar de esta nueva herramienta, sin hablar de la escritura y todas las tecnologías de la memoria y el conocimiento que convergieron para originar su creación. Se habla del hipertexto, haciendo referencia a sus pioneros, sus ideas y sus curiosos inventos. Se trata sobre el periodismo digital, realizando un análisis de la evolución del periodismo, sus riesgos y posibilidades en esta nueva era digital. Se trata sobre el hipertexto en el periodismo digital, la convergencia de un antiguo oficio y un sistema informático, que dan lugar a un nuevo modelo de comunicación, regido por el ideal de justicia e igualdad. El hipertexto ha encontrado su aplicación máxima junto a la aparición de Internet en los años 90.

Electrónica digital y microprogramada : equipos electrónicos de consumo : ciclo formativo de grado medio.

Este material didáctico, que obtuvo una mención en el Noveno Certamen de Materiales de Desarrollo Curricular, pretende facilitar y orientar el trabajo del profesorado en el aula. La metodología permite al alumno analizar circuitos relacionados con la electrónica digital y microprogramada. Se parte de actividades de aplicación o globalizadoras, para que el alumno adquiera los conocimientos que le permitan conseguir las capacidades necesarias para trabajar con las aplicaciones. Además, se realizan actividades de soporte o de aula, que sirven para reforzar los contenidos para aplicarlos después en las actividades globalizadoras. Se divide en orientaciones didácticas, que incluyen la metodología, temporalización, contenidos, material y orientaciones; actividades de soporte y de aplicación en forma de ficha, con los objetivos, proceso de trabajo, material, esquemas y evaluación de la actividad; y actividades de repaso y apoyo..

Select-divide-and-conquer method for large-scale configuration interaction

A select-divide-and-conquer variational method to approximate configuration interaction (CI) is presented. Given an orthonormal set made up of occupied orbitals (Hartree-Fock or similar) and suitable correlation orbitals (natural or localized orbitals), a large N-electron target space S is split into subspaces S0,S1,S2,...,SR. S0, of dimension d0, contains all configurations K with attributes (energy contributions, etc.) above thresholds T0={T0egy, T0etc.}; the CI coefficients in S0 remain always free to vary. S1 accommodates KS with attributes above T1≤T0. An eigenproblem of dimension d0+d1 for S0+S 1 is solved first, after which the last d1 rows and columns are contracted into a single row and column, thus freezing the last d1 CI coefficients hereinafter. The process is repeated with successive Sj(j≥2) chosen so that corresponding CI matrices fit random access memory (RAM). Davidson's eigensolver is used R times. The final energy eigenvalue (lowest or excited one) is always above the corresponding exact eigenvalue in S. Threshold values {Tj;j=0, 1, 2,...,R} regulate accuracy; for large-dimensional S, high accuracy requires S 0+S1 to be solved outside RAM. From there on, however, usually a few Davidson iterations in RAM are needed for each step, so that Hamiltonian matrix-element evaluation becomes rate determining. One μhartree accuracy is achieved for an eigenproblem of order 24 × 106, involving 1.2 × 1012 nonzero matrix elements, and 8.4×109 Slater determinants

Women in the digital economy: breaking through the equality threshold

Prepared by ECLAC for the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, this document systematizes and describes various dimensions that shape the way the region's women participate in the labour market and how they access and use the different elements of the digital economy. Information and communications technologies (ICTs); provide essential support across all economic, political, cultural and social activity, as well as being a production sector in their own right. As such, they are potential allies in the drive to achieve equality by helping reduce the gender inequities which constitute not only a gender digital gap but also a social divide. Public policies on gender equality must take into account the key and interconnected dimensions of economy, well-being and technology if they are to be capable of providing an ambitious and innovative response to the challenges of today's society. The core argument in the reflection on ICTs and gender equality thus has to do with how women engage in processes of change and sustainable development in the countries, which cannot be achieved without equal participation by men and women. From this perspective, the gender digital gap offers a specific opportunity to tackle gender inequalities in the region.