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MOCHI, Prudencio. Programs for digital inclusion and actors consensus in territorial development processes. Polis [online]. 2012, vol.8, n.1, pp.177-212. ISSN 2594-0686.

This study analyzes two social programs aimed towards youths linked with information and communication technologies (ICT). They were implemented at the Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje (Community Centers for Learning) in Mexico, located in territories suffering social gap issues. The article analyzes, on one hand, the importance of digitally including this age group, and on the other, the alliances and association schemes amongst the different actors -government, private entrepreneurs, and civil society- as a consensus strategy to facilitate public administration action. In such sense, conflict issues and the implications of the adopted schemes on the territory, as their contribution to social capital are evidenced. Data and information are results of an 2010 investigation. The findings account for these programs importance in the perception of the actors that participated in the territories studied and expose remaining exclusions, thus adding to improve social conditions of the studied youths and aid their capacity development. Even so, territorial capacity development and universal access participation in ICT are not assured. As for the alliances, the study found that they are cooperative even if centralized, with little participation in the local level and of low intensity.

Palavras-chave : digital programs; territorial development; technologies of information and communication technology.