Citoyenneté et politiques numériques. Équateur, Colombie, Chili

Abstract

This thesis examines the circulation of technologys discourses in Latin America between the late 1990s and 2010s, and looks more specifically at the construction of the idea of digital citizenship in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Over the last three decades, these countries have experienced specific democratic problems and have promoted digital technology as a political instrument in an attempt to solve these problems. In order to understand how, this thesis analyzes a corpus of public policies designed to plan national digital transformation: the digital policies. The aim of this research is to provide answers to two complementary questions. The first one: how do digital policies describe the evolution of the idea of digital citizenship in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile? The second one: to what extent does the idea of digital citizenship reflect the role that the governments of these countries attribute to citizens in the digital society?