Although Google has transformed the scope of Internet searches, making an exponential leap in the improvement of information classification and identification models and methodologies, as the inexhaustible production of data reaches almost infinite volumes of bytes, the world is urging for new technologies to efficiently manage the avalanche of information that is produced every second […]
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A prestigious Mexican teacher and researcher recently conducted a curious experiment with her computer science students, which once again showed that digital marketing tools not only store and interpret our behavior, but might be crossing the fine line of privacy, a fact that several cybersecurity experts have been warning about for several years and that
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Hardly any economic sector is as hostile to small micro and mini-entrepreneurs as the telecommunications sector. While in segments such as food, commerce or tourism, governments invest in incubation and strengthening programs; on the contrary, plans for telecommunications SMEs in Latin America seem to be designed to hinder their growth. How do small ISPs survive
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Television channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon or Discovery, achieved audience successes at the end of the last century through a bold strategy of incorporating humanist experts, who were in charge of designing content based on the characterization of target audiences, producing customized stories and revolutionizing the content industry. Based on the same principle, companies like
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Historically, the provision of telecommunications services has been closely linked to ownership of the network infrastructure, i.e. any company or person wishing to provide telecommunications services requires its own infrastructure, a concept that, although still in force, many governments, social organizations and associations, mainly in first world countries, are proposing to reevaluate it through infrastructure
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In 1984, the Japanese author Yoneji Masuda published the text “An Introduction to the Information Society”, where he characterized information as the most valuable asset of society during the following decades, a similar vision of the future shared by Marshall McLuhan and Alvin Toffler , and which eventually predicted many of the great sociocultural elements
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From its origins, the Internet was conceived as a collaborative, ecosystem, self-sustainable, participatory, distributed and accessible network to all humanity; a model that materialized the dream of an inclusive, diverse and plural society through technology. Although, technologically speaking, the Internet continues to maintain the guiding principles of its founding, it has ceased to be a
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When we share our data on social media and the Internet in general, the privacy policy of most online platforms assure us that our information will remain anonymous, however, an investigation recently conducted by The New York Times, regarding the tracking of the capitol assailants in recent days, revealed that, it is very simple to
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According to a recent ECLAC and CAF report [1], Latin America is one of the regions of the world lagging furthest behind in telecommunications development, second only to some African and Asia-Pacific sub-regions. This lag represents an enormous investment, regulation and modernization challenge that must be met during this decade, demanding a colossal effort from
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A prestigious Mexican teacher and researcher recently conducted a curious experiment with her computer science students, which once again showed that digital marketing tools not only store and interpret our behavior, but might be crossing the fine line of privacy, a fact that several cybersecurity experts have been warning about for several years and that
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