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Former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch urged people to exercise their rights as citizens demanding that the authorities adhere to the principles of transparency established by the Constitution of the Republic and the General Law on Free Access to Information 200-04.

Dr. Ortiz Bosch made the call during the conference “Transparency, Accountability and Citizens’ Free Access to Public Information,” organized by the Office of Access to Information and the Dominican UASD Legal Aid.

He said the system of transparency that is not new in the global sphere, together with development of information technology has contributed to the advancement of citizenship.

“Transparency is very important today for humanity and for the exercise of human rights, all you have to do with the organizations of man and citizen,” he said.

Dr. Ortiz Bosch, who is also Vice President of the Republic occupied the Ministry of Education during the 2000-2004 period, spoke of the need for transparency in society in the Auditorium Manuel del Cabral Pedro Mir Library of the University America’s First.

She was accompanied by the Vice Chancellor for Extension Master Terrero Francisco Galarza, who held the representation of Matthew Aquino Febrillet rector, the maestro Mario Hernandez, head of the Office of Access to Information UASD, the Trajano Vidal Potentini lawyer and teacher Joseph Disla Francisco, as well as hundreds of students, faculty and staff who supported the event.

Dr. Ortiz Bosch regretted that the country has a real mechanism to determine the reality of government spending in relation to approving the Congress each year.

He stressed the need to practice transparency in the country, both politically and administratively, to enable citizens to monitor the use and management of public resources, so as to prevent loss of money in corruption.

The information technology and communication are a part of the emerging technologies that usually tend to identify with the acronym ICT and refer to the use of computerized systems to store, process and disseminate any information or educational training process.
Over the years, ICTs have evolved to meet human needs and highlighting the television and radio.
Societies today are characterized by diverse and abundant flow of information and communication. In a century we have gone from radio equipment that allowed us to hear voices of remote environments, the black and white film, color, special effects and computer-created characters, of the nearly first TV images showed the landing a man on the immediacy of news and images of world events.
ICTs are mainly characterized by their intangibility (possibility of scanning), immediacy and multimedia applications. They have brought great benefits especially in education but in turn if not given proper use, will find disadvantages.

Therefore, currently the use of information technologies and communication in adolescents is a matter of concern, debate and reflection for many authors, both nationally and internationally. But this concern has not yet been translated into a systematic and organized effort to implement relevant activities for the appropriate use of technology by teens.
For example, one of the major concerns for both educators and the family, about the relationships of adolescents with ICT, is the possibility that appear addictive behaviors that can disrupt personal and social development in the adolescents. The media are the first to emphasize these cases, although there can not be generalized.
You could say that what defines the addictive behavior is the frequency with which this is done; it is the loss of control of the person, and the establishment of a relationship of dependency.
In this regard, seven have been proposed to detect signs of Internet addiction:

* Spending several hours’ online, neglecting important aspects of your life.
* Friends and relatives think you have problems with using the Internet.
* Being young (the younger, more risk must be dependent on the Internet.)
* The use of the Internet creates serious negative consequences.
* You see his reliance on the Internet as a shy, intense activity.
* Keep secret the time you spend online.
* You can not go a day without the computer without connecting to the Internet.

In turn, indicates that this addiction leads to truancy and certain behaviors such as not complying with the schedules chat at all hours and allow interacting with their peers. This addiction is defined as follows: “Cell phone use becomes an addiction when it becomes a repetitive behavior that is pleasurable and creates a loss of control in the subject”

A related aspect of addiction is isolation. Often, the media reported about this effect, produced the use of ICT, particularly in adolescents. We deliver the image of the young alone, locked in his room and escaping from any social commitment to sit for many hours and connect to your computer. Isolation is a risk that reflects the degree of dependence that has every teenager.

On the other hand, the adolescent population and its environment may be affected because of the potential offered by ICT to get lots of information about its users, without being aware of it. The strategies are many: an apparently inoffensive forms or promotions via SMS to mobile are among the most common. Companies are able to easily pass the barrier between public and private, using the ingenuity of users.
Regarding the second problem, the advertising is not specifically distinct from other information in the contents that we deliver ICT. In this respect it is logical that if we study the composition of such web sites of brands and favorite products of adolescents, and advertising that reaches them through mobile phone, it is difficult to clearly differentiate between information and persuasion.
In addition, through the use of ICTs expand the social relations, but also get new features, which do not exist in the real level of interpersonal communication (face to face). In this regard, the influence of anonymity between the participants has been one of the most studied in relation to the personal identity of adolescents constructed in virtual environments.

Finally, there is talk that the issue of violence has been continually involved in video games. The observed high rate of violence in games has been severely criticized. Much of the publicity of these games is based on the violent aspect, noting that social learning theory posits the hypothesis that aggressive play games encourage aggressive behavior. For example, the children imitate or otherwise learn what they see on the screen.

Mafia extension has caused discomfort in the U.S. security agency within Homeland Security, because it allows circumventing the administrative or judicial action that led to the closure of the site. Why Homeland Security has contacted Mozilla, demanding to withdraw from circulation the controversial application.

However, Mozilla refuses to accede to the request, saying that Homeland Security has no right to demand it, and that any request must be issued by the U.S. courts, not the executive.

“Homeland Security has not returned to contact, nor have we received a legal opinion on the matter,” writes Harvey Anderson, head of legal affairs for Mozilla, the organization’s blog.

Anderson also relates to the substantive issue, questioning the power of the authorities, and openly reviewing the request of Homeland Security violates a free Internet. Anderson points out that the Mozilla Foundation at all times be governed by judicial opinions and other requirements covered by the law. Add that to the case of Mafia, still no legal requirement whatsoever that supports the request of Homeland Security.