Rodrigo+Garrido

=Rodrigo Garrido= **Home page**: [|www.ciisoc.cl]
 * Your Country :** Chile
 * Affiliation: Director of Center of Studies on Digital Inclusion and Knowledge Society - Universidad de La Frontera **
 * Contact:** rodrigo.garrido@ciisoc.cl

Over the last twelve years I have been linked to several initiatives about digital inclusion, universal access and information literacy in Chile and other places, such as Brasil, Bolivia and Mexico. Since 1997 until 2005, I coordinated the Community Information Network of La Araucania, initiative of Communities Telecenters which enables to decrease the digital gap in La Araucania - Chile. I have a master degree in Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). Currently, I'm writing my PhD Thesis whom topic is ICT and indigenous people, from a perspective of social justice in the knowledge society. I have two sons, Catalina (15) and Joaquin (10), and you can find me in facebook too. The Center (CIISOC in short) in which I work, is focused in topics as: e-agriculture, digital divide/inclusion, e-health, e-citizen and e-government. In this Center there is a multidisciplinary researchers team, sociologists, social workers, engineers, journalists and educators. CIISOC can be a good place to you know the current situation of digital development in Chile and the rest of Southamerica.

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