Las culturas y humanidades digitales como nuevo desafío para el desarrollo de la ciencia y la tecnología en América Latina.

This paper presents a general discussion on the topic of Digital Humanities (DH) understood as a scientific and technological field that is being built worldwide and in which we should think, from the beginning, on the issue of relations between some research centers in the North that propel this field and others that follow the movement. To found this reflection, it retakes the analysis of the role of Science and Technology (S & T) in development and in a more precise way it observes what happens or what could happen in the field of DH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]