Appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reduce poverty in Aguascalientes, Mexico

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Christian Iván Becerril-Velasco

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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review the extent to which the institutional weakness of the Mexican state has impeded the poor from appropriating technology to obtain a sustained income in the labour market in order to overcome poverty through their own efforts.

Methodology: The methodological design of our research was sequential-exploratory and entailed a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Results: The results show that the institutional weakness of the Mexican state impedes people from appropriating ICTs to expand their opportunities to obtain a sustained income in the labour market in order to overcome poverty through their own efforts.

Limitations: The main limitation in this study is that we collected data in only one state of the Mexican Republic.

Main findings: The questionnaire we applied to ex-recipients of the anti-poverty policy Prospera has an acceptable confidence level to be able to make generalizations about the labour conditions of the poor people who are aged between eighteen and twenty-nine and completed high school in the state of Aguascalientes.

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Becerril-Velasco, C. I. (2019). Appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reduce poverty in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Entreciencias: Diálogos En La Sociedad Del Conocimiento, 7(21). https://doi.org/10.22201/enesl.20078064e.2019.21.69387
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Christian Iván Becerril-Velasco, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

He holds a PhD Degree in Political Science from the University of York, United Kingdom. He is currently a Professor at the National Council of Science and technology (Conacyt for its acronym in Spanish). His research interests are: Labour market, poverty and ICTs, among others.

His latest three publications are:

  • Becerril Velasco, C. (2019). The feeble institutional link between the information and communication technologies in Mexico. Noesis Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 28(55-1), pp. 43-60.
  • Becerril Velasco, C. (2018). Estado, apropiación social de las tecnologías de la información y co- municación y pobreza. Revista Espiral Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad, 25(7), pp. 47-78.
  • Becerril Velasco, C. (2015). The role of the state in alleviating poverty in the neoliberal age: a theoretical approach. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 60(225), pp. 369-393.