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Social exclusion is an issue that generates permanent conflicts in the countries of our region:
human trafficking including minors, school desertion, illegal labour market, disappearance of
people with deprivation of life, identity theft, among others. In face of this situation future
fields to approach it are under study, analyzing the external and internal contexts where this
situation is taking place to determine how to attain the proposed objectives.
Programs such as the Argentine Digital Agenda, promotes the elimination of the so called
“digital divide” providing communications and technological tools so that citizens at school
age and the family group can be part of the digital world. The access to school, cultural and
information contents are part of the improvement of citizenship quality in its relation with
governments, provincial and national, providing equal opportunities and generating more and
better jobs thanks to the initiatives of the national production of technological equipment that
foster higher investments. All this, is a constituent part of a stable and strong government that
promotes social and digital inclusion.
For this reason, when analyzing the sustainable development of these projects, we are faced
with the certainty that biometrics should not be focused only from a technological perspective
for application and use, but also it should be part of the progress in social inclusion issues.
The security pursued should not be based on more prisons, or on providing more weapons to
fight against crime, but on inserting those least protected to a social ecosystem where they can
be trained, they can have an opinion and be part of a growth model; and for this purpose, digital
inclusion is undoubtedly the following step in social inclusion, allowing citizens to be part of
the society since their infancy.
Childhood
Taking as a conceptual framework the “XII Ibero American Conference of Ministers and
Responsible Staff for Infancy and Adolescence” held on June 23 and 24, 2011, in the Autonomous
City of Buenos Aires, in which a commitment to take legislative actions to facilitate the
construction of integral systems for the protection of infancy and adolescence was taken, it
was decided to accompany this process from the environment of our competence. 2
It is known that it is a State obligation to protect, and if it is the case, to restore the fundamental
aspects of a child’s identity as name, nationality and family relationships.
But, why is it important to have a name? Because it is the most common social way of introducing
oneself to other people, to declare an identity. Every person, every human being is born with
biometric features such as fingerprints but that individual needs to be identified before him/
herself and for other individuals with his/her own biographical data (first name, last name,
etc.) and to perform necessary administrative procedures with his/her documents and identity
number. An individual with no name and nationality cannot have access to other rights; a name
and a nationality are the pillars that contribute to the exercise of other rights such as the access
to medical care, education, information, recreation, etc.
2 http://www.xxcumbreiberoamericana.mrecic.gov.ar/?q=node/17
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