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Digital skills in the work of higher education is a very fruitful field that is constantly developing due to the adequacy of teachers in the face of the demand for information and communication technologies and their impact on the educational field. This article deals with the current panorama and its dynamics against the requirements that the teacher must develop and the perspectives of the university and students. On the other hand, the perspective of new trends in relation to the panorama of virtual learning environments and their link in university education, is addressed. In addition, a final discussion is presented on the possibilities of the development of competencies in the higher academic task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research article examines the experiences of Venezuela and Ecuador as pioneers in Latin America in policies to support free culture, use of free software and the progressive digital empowerment of popular or citizen power through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC). The methodological strategy is based on a documentary research to diagnose the normative framework of governmental actions and to analyze the organizational expressions of the subjects of free culture. The results suggest that both Venezuela and Ecuador have legal experience and have allocated important public funds for the creation of infrastructure, which has influenced the formation in their territory of a melting pot of solvent social organizations to make that great leap to a society of information and knowledge. It is concluded that the challenges of the present point to the need to resume the initial enthusiasm, relaunch government plans to administer the political dividends of the symbolic efficacy of the discourse and praxis of free culture in order to generate policies for the consolidation and articulation of communities and corporate cores with real digital empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to investigate the competences in information and communication technologies (ICT) of the administrators of micro, small and medium size enterprises (MiPymes) with the aim of proposing a Training Program for the digital empowerment of this important Colombian social sector. Under an actionresearch methodology, 250 representatives of these companies were surveyed. The results demonstrate a high availability rate in the network and an adequate technological infrastructure, despite the low employment reported for the use of ICT and the Web page, given the low levels of ICT preparation. It is concluded that there is an inconsistent relationship between both dimensions; while the conditions of accessibility are given, the advantages of these resources to digitally empower these entrepreneurs through the integration of digital knowledge are not taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research identifies the technological competencies of Colombian public officials in the municipality of Riohacha to detect the digital divide that prevents the approach of these officials to citizens. With a qualitative-quantitative methodological approach based on a study case, a questionnaire is applied to 35 representatives of the mentioned municipality. The quantitative results are located at the low level, showing that they almost never use the potential of ICT to meet the needs of the population in terms of the services offered by the government, while the qualitative data responds to the socio demographic characteristics of sampling. Consequently, a government school is proposed in this paper for the training these officials in Information and Communication Technologies, so they can offer better service to the citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the phenomenon of the sexualization of children has prompted numerous investigations in recent years, very few have studied how adults perceive it, and none has studied the sexualization of girls in photographs in social networks. This work demonstrates, from the results of a structured online survey of 353 people, that the sexualization of girls in social networks generates perceptions that undervalue girls in intellectual, social, and moral aspects. Such perceptions depend on media consumption level, degree of self-objectification, and people's religiosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current ease of online education allows students to acquire the professional and personal competencies demanded for the XXI century. In this article we study the media empowerment of students, as citizens, using multiple means of communication. We have established the first scale for the measurement of such empowerment, analyzing the exercise of active citizenship and the use of various media, as skills acquired through e-learning. The study was carried out with alumni of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (n=544), constructing a consistent and reliable scale for the two subscales that comprise it: active citizenship (5 items, α = 0.93) and diversified use of media (3 items, α = 0.95). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]