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within the government policies underlying the National Digital Agenda. This planning involves
critical review, the selection of a universally applicable model, regional integration, and the
overarching concept of identity.
The Digital Agenda involves: the guiding principles of electronic government, the standards
that guarantee network cyber-security, programs designed to reduce the digital divide, others
to promote digital literacy, and yet more to develop new IT platforms, software protection
programs, and hardware development.
The use of technology is coordinated by the Under-Secretariat of Management Technologies,
which observes the standards of interoperability and compatibility which are the common
denominators in the process of integration which allows the information in the government’s
custody to become more important and more valuable. This coordination is fundamental when
designing and planning medium- and long-term policies.
Incorporating technology into state organisations
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“Technology only makes sense to the extent that it is
provided with content”
As has already been mentioned, the use of biometry as a method of identification involves the
authentication of data in a digital environment. It will therefore be useful to take a look back at
the technological advances that have taken place over the last few decades both in society in
general and specifically within public administration.
The need for interoperability is symptomatic of our “contextual reality”, and we must therefore
consider its causes.
The neo-liberal policies of the 90s produced one of the biggest reductions in income distribution
and, as an immediate consequence; social inequality grew against a background of the openingup
of commercial and financial markets as a result of economic deregulation.
Against this background there was a mass influx of imported capital goods, including hardware
and software. At the same time, the demand for more complex software and IT services was fed
from abroad, leading to what might be considered a clear technological dependence, further
accentuating the existing gap, particularly within public bodies.
Towards the end of the 90s, a survey conducted by Microsoft found that of the 74% of
Argentineans who had television, only 7.4% owned a computer, an alarming statistic even
without adding the fact that 67% of all computers were in the federal capital, Buenos Aires.
The current situation is that “in 2001, 30% of homes had internet access, and in 2010 that figure
had increased to 47%, or 5 million people”, in the words of President Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner as she helped launch Infojus, the website of the Argentine Legal Information Service
of the Ministry of Justice, which allows all citizens to have free and unrestricted access to all
relevant information from the judicial system.