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On Tuesday October 18th at the Hotel Melia Buenos Aires, TOTVS, a leader in business development and marketing of integrated business management software and provision of related services, performed for the first time in Argentina, the Universe TOTVS, the company’s traditional event held annually in Brazil.

With the presence of customers, business partners and prospective guests, top executives from TOTVS present tools and technology solutions, management software and social networking aimed at the management of companies of all sizes and segment. The event also will feature guest speakers who provide content management conference focused on IT and business.

TOTVS Universe will begin with the presentation of Laércio Cosentino, President and Founder of TOTVS, who will speak on Foundations of IT in the Next Decade. The aim of this conference is to present the evolution of the world, that society imposed on the need to think in three major concepts for success in the corporate world in the next decade: Mobility, Communication and Processes. TOTVS Cosentino revealed as invested in the inclusion of these three concepts in their solutions.

The company president also will speak on the company’s current stage: the phase of internationalization. The Argentine market is a priority for TOTVS, according to the strategic growth plan for the coming years. So the company is committed to business investment in the country and in the approach to customers in the region.

Ricardo Urresti, Executive Manager of Technology TOTVS will show how technology can become strategic tools able to help in projects, including tools and integration solutions, document management and mobility, which aim to maximize business performance.

For its part, Gilsinei Hansen, Director of Software Strategy and TOTVS segments make a presentation on the Future of Software TOTVS on the investments made in innovation, the main new features of version TOTVS 2011 and how they can improve corporate governance, such as Business Analytics TOTVS decision support Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), which implements Lean Manufacturing concepts applied to the production sequence, as well as specialized vertical solutions and developments in technology and integration.

TOTVS also with his client MRO Solutions, a company that provides products and services for fluid handling and control, process safety, protection of equipment and facilities and shall submit the case study with 360 º TOTVS ERP product.

Guest speakers will present the president of IBM Argentina, Jorge Goulu, who will speak about the partnership in conjunction with TOTVS to provide added value to the business of SMEs, by offering the TOTVS ERP via SaaS cloud computing .

Silvio Szostak, Consultant appointed CIO of the decade by Information Technology magazine, will speak on how the CIO agenda for 2012, the management of innovation, people and growth.

With the prominent presence of Dr. Claudio Zuchovicki, Development Manager of the Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, at the end of the day, provide a detailed reading of the local economic context for understanding today’s economy, and explain how midsize companies can easily financed at low rates through the Stock Exchange of Buenos Aires.

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.

In addition to acquiring and expanding access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), countries should assess and strengthen their ability to use these tools, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Latin America and the Caribbean should improve the skills of its population, physical infrastructure and its institutions and its regulations, so that ICT can have a positive impact on development, the study concluded.

“With appropriate policies, governments can take full advantage of ICT tools to promote development. These technologies can improve the dissemination of information and help solve market failures, “said Alberto Chong, chief economist of the IDB and the study coordinator.”But it is important to note that, by itself, increased access to ICTs will not cause development. Countries should also focus on how to apply these tools. “

The book Connections development: the impact of new information technologies examines how ICTs have contributed to the success of 46 development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean in six areas: finance, health, institutions, education, poverty and environment. This study is the first in the region systematically applying rigorous statistical methods to measure how information and communication technologies had an impact on the results of the projects.

Based on randomized control trials and economic studies, researchers found that 39 percent of the reviewed projects benefited greatly from the adoption of new technologies, while others only partially or minimally benefited from the application of ICT.

Today we speak of “information society” to refer to two related but distinct phenomena. First, referring to companies – countries, states, and nation-whose economic processes, communications, political and cultural, have been dramatically transformed during the past thirty years as a result of the addition that they have made various social actors ICT.

Secondly, the concept of “Information Society” refers to social systems of interaction and interaction between supra-and transnational actors who use ICT to generate economic processes, communications, political and cultural, on a global basis.

That said otherwise, are “information societies”, those in which the social use of ICT has led to paradigm shifts in their production processes, communications, political and cultural. Part of an “Information Society” – global-those social sectors, regardless of their nationality, who participate as actors in production processes, communication, political and cultural, in turn, have as a fundamental tool and ICT produce, or tend to occur-on a global basis. The first definition gives meaning to the phenomena it denotes, from a local view (understood as “local” and “national”), the second from a global perspective (understood as “global” and globally).

The ethics of information society is the discipline that identifies and analyzes the impact of information technology on human values and social and observes the development of moral relations in the information field and especially in the field of network digital, exposes myths and critical information and analyze power relations that determine the field in question, exposes contradictions hidden practices of power and observe the development of theoretical concepts in the field of information.

Most authors agree that it is a company born after the industrial era and that is generated from 1970 along with a change in the way companies operate where products become less important materials focuses on services more precisely in the creation, distribution and manipulation of information, where new technologies of information and communication technology (ICT `s) play a fundamental role.
Along with the information society is born another concept known as “Ethics for the Information Society” which has its origin from multiple and repeated questions on the ethical legal and social aspects of cyberspace “, or” Info ethics “in discussed issues such as “access to digital information,” “preservation of digital information recorded,” Preparation of Societies for the multimedia environment, “the public domain and Multilingualism”, “privacy and confidentiality in cyberspace” “copyright, intellectual property and ‘fair use’ of information” and “societies and globalization.”

This means that the ethics of information society looks at the moral development of relations in the information field and especially in the field of digital network exposes myths and critical information and analysis of power relations that determine the field question, exposes contradictions hidden practices of power and observe the development of theoretical concepts in the field of information.