On the 15th of May, starting at 4:00 p.m., the PhD student Jubitza Mariana Franciskovic Ingunza thesis defense will take place at Sala de Graus of La Salle Barcelona - Universitat Ramon Llull. Entitled "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Emerging Countries: A View from the Perspective of Citizen Participation, Rural Areas and Gender in Peru", the thesis has been carried out under the direction of Dr. Francesc Miralles Torner. The doctoral student is part of the SmartSociety group.
Overcoming poverty vulnerabilities is one of the concerns of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) formulated by the United Nations (UN). In this endeavor, information, and communication technologies (ICT) are destined to play a relevant role. Although important achievements have been reported, there are still social groups in which, that due to their vulnerable situation, their members are still excluded from being able to receive the benefits that ICTs can provide.
To progress in this objective, this work is based on three case studies that propose three development vectors in an emerging economy like Peru. These three case studies have been published in indexed scientific journals, thus verifying the requirement of a doctoral thesis per compendium of the doctoral program. The three case studies have been the empirical basis to carry out a critical realism analysis that has allowed us to elaborate some insights to answer the research question. After the empirical reflection on the three case studies, the inference process typical of critical realism analysis is carried out for each of the dimensions of the TSP and each level of contribution. From this inference process, a set of propositions emerge that are formulated as the first theoretical contribution of the work.
The court is made up of the president, Dr. Jaime Sherida Nishimura; the secretary, Dra. Rosa Ma. Alsina Pagès; and the member, Dra. Milagros Gascó Hernández.