Abstract

GUIDO, Luciana  and  VIDOSA, Regina. The sector of software and computer services in the 21st century: Alternatives and challenges in the argentine case. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.2, pp.46-58. ISSN 1851-3123.

Since the 2000s, Latin America is experiencing an increase in activities related to the software and computer services (SSI) sector. However, what are the alternatives and challenges that new technologies open up to promote processes of technological change and new productive dynamics in peripheral countries? This paper wants to show some elements that contribute to answering these concerns and the general debate on the current phase of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within what some authors have called the "techno-economic paradigm" (Pérez 2010) in the Argentine case. In order to do so, we explore the characteristics that the ICT sector - and SSI in particular - assumes on an international scale, and then stop at the singularities of SSI at the local level. From a critical view of the innovation economy (with some elements of Latin American structuralism), it is investigated in the problematic raised from the collection and analysis of secondary sources and the review of a broad set of public policies designed for the sector during the post-devaluation period.

Keywords : Technologies; Software; Companies; Public Policies; Semi-Periphery.

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