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The activities organized on the first day on Wednesday November 16 at the XI Science Week, we visited two schools in FP, with 38 people including students and teachers. Throughout the day tomorrow, classroom activities in 3005 were three conferences including:

“European Higher Education and Research in Engineering Technology ICT Information and Communication.”

It takes an overview of the college in the EHEA framework, or model of Bologna and deepened in the study of Engineering in the Information Technology and Communications, where graduates require continuous innovation ability and motivation.

Next, we performed several groups for the guided tour of the Telecommunication Systems Laboratories, Electronics, Telematics and Sound and Image. At the end of the day was delivered to the centers responsible for the information material of the School. All participants, both visitors and organizers were pleased with the results of which were very fruitful Conference for both parties.

Moreover, outside the program, teachers and school staff accompanied the students to take a snack in the Cafeteria.

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.

What product is shown in the picture? Probably your answer is “digital camera”, which indicates that possibly you were born before 1986 or thereabouts. That is, you are a “digital immigrant”, a person who has had to adapt to technology and not assumed to be “natural” life. It’s the people who once waited several days to reveal rolls of photos that captured special moments in your life.

Book sales in decline, big bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble are heading to the story. Amazon say that, although the only books represent 45% of its sales. No time to read a book. Just as there is for a post on a blog. We are in a hurry, we have little time. However, the sale of eBooks does not cover the fall of books.

If you ask a “digital native” What are the information systems that are sure to answer something that people use from 9 am to 5 pm, which are slow, heavy and dull. Instead, technology is used after hours, using the Internet, digital games (the little word here again), chatting with his Blackberry, using your Smartphone with Foursquare or snooping into social networks. Here everything is colorful, fast, with photos, such as “normal” things. Is this good or bad? Maybe that’s not the right question that leads us to take a position. It is a reality.

Depending on your age, most readers of this post should belong to Generation X or Y (and the occasional Baby Boomer). Interact with Generation Y (those born between 1982 and 1992 defined cohort in the U.S.) and is challenging: they are people looking for short-term rewards, like to have their ideas heard, accepted and implemented without much rodeo, were raised under what is called the “niñocracia”, where parents, perhaps overwhelmed by the guilt of not having enough time to spend with their children, perhaps escaping the ghost of a childhood surrounded by scarcity (or hippie parents), gave their children very, very carefully, and yielded to the temptation to “give everything.” When it was be great, felt that they deserved it. This subject is a case study in Harvard University.

And those born after 1992? These belong to the so-called Generation M (Millennium or Mobile). 100% digital natives, 100% infotainment. We are in the business of infotainment, not in the business of information technology. We do not provide information but experiences “normal” use of technology. And it’s not technology, is entertainment. New forms of learning are those, new ways to reach the heart (limbic brain) to achieve our goals. If education does not involve entertainment, is lost.

Currently the Information Technology and Communication ICT are undergoing rapid development, this is affecting virtually all areas of our society, and education is no exception.

This work is of interest that the ICT-Education interaction has aroused worldwide. Education International conference “Education for All for Learning to Live Together (CIE, 2001) held in Geneva in 2001 expressed in relation to Information Technology and Communication (ICT).

These technologies are increasingly a necessity in the context of society where rapid change, increased knowledge and the demands of a high standard of education constantly updated become a permanent requirement.

The relationship between ICTs and education is twofold: On one hand, citizens are forced to meet and learn about ICT. Furthermore, ICT can be applied to the educational process.

This dual aspect is reflected in two different educational expectations: on the one hand, we have computer scientists interested in learning computers, and in the other, teachers interested in using information technology to education.

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The director general of Issemym, Osvaldo Santin Quiroz, presented little more than 40 records staff of the Unit Information Technology Social Security Institute of Mexico State and Municipalities credited his participation in various graduate coordinated with the System State Information Technology, Professional Development Institute for Public Servants of the State Government of Mexico, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, National University of Litoral, Argentina (with a diploma on-line) and the Universidad Iberoamericana, among others.

With Cosmovitral as a backdrop, Santin told those present that to the institute the challenge of technology is one of the biggest challenges since the Issemym for its size and complexity advances to fruition thanks to the technological tools that give life and agility to the different services offered.

“The complexity of services provided and logistic processes can be performed only with the support of a solid technology platform, the information was no longer possible to be handled in isolation, paper, raw, with no real use to decision making and that is where we see how the technological system is one of the main strategies to transform the institution, “he said.

He said the Issemym has not only advanced in the infrastructure and staffing, but also, the most significant achievements in the field of information technology.

He explained that “the Institute is in much better condition to continue to grow, to continue to strengthen its services, with more solid foundations that have a lot to do with a better interface with a better flow of information and above all better equipment that meets all this technological infrastructure. “

In his message to the winners exteriorized Santin, “Now that the governor speaks of the information society are precisely the people you have this possibility, these skills, these qualities, ie, have a great advantage but also a great responsibility “.

“I hope you know understand and know how to value what they represent to the Institute, in the same way that the institute recognizes and appreciates what you represent to function properly.”

He was glad that this staff development program reflects the commitment to provide better services, “we have always said that the essence of the organization are people and as professionals we have better top talent we will have a better organization and that begins to reflect the mood of the title, in the acceptance of citizenship and is what should make us proud. “

Support information

1 What is information medium?

2 Which means that the media have a way of sequential or random access to information?
3 How we rank them according to the technology used in your configuration?
4) Make a list of at least 8 media find an image of each show its capacity for data storage and gives some general characteristics.
5) Find some images that show how to perform reading and writing data on magnetic media, in an electronic and an optical.

1 – With the constant evolution of computers in recent years, it is necessary that the information already developed by the computer to be memorized or stored in large capacity drives. These units are known as mass storage and are internal or external devices to the computer for storing large volumes of information, both programs and data.
These devices have a fundamental characteristic: the recorded information characters are not volatile, that remains even if power is disconnected.
The stored information will be treated later by another computer with similar characteristics to that was the source of information.

2-Sequential access: sequential access, the reading element of the device must pass through the space occupied by the totality of the data previously occupied space physically stored data comprising the set of information to be accessed.
Random access: the random access mode, the scan element can directly go to the address where the information is stored physically to be located without having to pass through to the stored between the start of the recording surface and the point where stores the information sought.

3-in computer keyboard is an input peripherals or devices, in part inspired by the keyboard of typewriters, which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches that send information to the computer. After the punch cards and paper tapes, the interaction through the ticker-style keyboards became the primary means for computer input.

4 – The characteristics that must be taken into account on a hard drive are:
* Access Time: Average time it takes the needle on the track and placed in the desired sector, is the sum of average seeks time (on the track), while read / write and the average latency (seen in the sector).
* Average Seek Time: Average time it takes for the needle placed in the desired track is half the time taken for the needle to go from the track more peripheral to more central disk.
* Time read / write: Average time it takes for the disk to read or write new information, the time depends on the amount of information you want to read or write, the block size, the number of heads, lap time and the number of sectors per track.
* Average Latency: Average time it takes for the needle placed in the desired sector, is half the time spent on a full disk rotation.
* Speed: revolutions per minute of the dishes. The higher the speed of rotation, lower average latency.

Companies that develop high levels of agility not only survive this economic turbulence, but also will be the leaders of tomorrow’s markets.

Today’s organizations must identify the change and respond to it swiftly in order to remain a viable option in the market. The ability to detect, anticipate and respond to changes more quickly will provide organizations set strategic direction for:
Respond to changing market conditions.
Increase its market share even in economies that characterize hard as our new reality
Increase sales growth and profitability and improve overall financial performance

Agility is characterized by a cycle, which comprises a series of five steps:
- Detect lies ahead or need a change
- Planning the best action
- Decide on the course to follow
- Communicate to all key participants in the new plan,
- Press for Change.

These five steps are sequential and are executed every time there is a change in the business landscape. The cycle occurs in all levels of the organization on an ongoing basis.
How to facilitate agility in the organization? Technology is the common denominator of all five. It is not the case that only some technologies provide flexibility, but each organization will have a different agenda management challenges and unique architectural footprint that will require different strategies of using technology to support and improve agility. This may represent from a small correction to a strategic reorientation of the company.

In the context of information technology is of interest to measure the agility of a company making a benchmark to compare with similar companies. Eventually provide prescriptive measures to optimize investments in information technology from the objective of maximizing agility.
There are four key attributes that have to meet any investment in information technology to generaragilidad for business:

First, a solution of information technology has to ensure that business operations are reported. You must connect data devices and processes both internally and externally so that people can access information from anywhere and more usefulness;
second, the technology has to turn the company into a more productive by leveraging also systems to support processes and thereby enable the business to multiply the power and impact of its technology and its people.

The technology must be reliable, always available, always working safely and always ready, but AT THE SAME TIME must be flexible to adapt according to changing business needs
finally, technology must provide all of this based on a clear concept and aimed at the best cost / benefit. The consistent application of cost-benefit measurements allows real information about the return on investment.

Any solution of information technology must comply with each of these points to maximize every dollar invested and ultimately generate business agility
Each of the criteria have equal weight and importance to an organization in pursuit of the goal of agility. Developing a framework, it is possible to measure the state of agility in an organization, identify weaknesses and suggest practical solutions so the organization can implement concrete actions to improve their agility and competitiveness portended.

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.

Living in a globalized world, where speed of information does not give us time to reflect on the moral problems that arise with technological progress, we must be professional enough to bring the ethical against any temptation to put into practice the values moral principles so that our interest in information does not harm others and learn to appreciate the work and effort made by other professionals to improve our quality of life.

The dynamic that currently generates information using technology has resulted in the development of new policies, rules and laws regarding the regulation of actions which can affect individuals and measure the parameters that the information should have.

To understand the moral dimensions of information systems is necessary to start from the social and ethical challenges that technological advances generated.
There are currently five moral dimensions which are:
1. there should be no personal record systems whose existence is a secret.
2. Individuals are entitled to access, inspect, review and amend the system that contains information about them.
3. Personal information will not be used for purposes other than those for which consent was obtained.
4. The system administrators have personal responsibility, formal and legal responsibility for damage caused by the reliability and security of systems.
5. Governments have the right to intervene in relations between private information.

Technology and information systems threaten privacy, which is the right of individuals to be left alone without supervision or interference by other individuals, organizations or government of individuals to make cheap, affordable and effective invasion.

Venezuela has ordered 3 laws governing this matter. They are:

1. Special Law against Cybercrime of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Aims at comprehensive protection of the systems using information technologies and the prevention and punishment of crimes committed against such systems or any component or crimes committed through the use of these technologies.

2. Telecommunications Law of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Is to establish the legal framework regulating telecommunications in general, to guarantee the human right of people to communicate and conduct of economic activities needed to achieve telecommunication, without other limitations than those derived from the Constitution and laws.
Excluded from the purpose of this Law regulating the content of broadcasts and communications sent through the various means of telecommunications, which is governed by constitutional provisions, laws and regulations concerned.

3. Organic Law of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Aims to develop the guiding principles in science, technology and innovation established by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, organized the National Science, Technology and Innovation, define the guidelines that will guide policies and strategies for the activity science, technology and innovation with the introduction of institutional and operational mechanisms for the promotion, encouragement and promotion of scientific research, social ownership and transfer of knowledge and technological innovation in order to build capacity for the generation, use and circulation of knowledge and boost national development.