Human development in college students. Exploring the relationship between uses and exploitation of the ICTs and the personal autonomy

Abstract

This article explores, from the ICT-for-Development perspective, the uses, exploitation and opinions about the ICTs in order to gain insights on how it influences the personal autonomy in college communication students. This is an exploratory, diachronic and quantitative study in which students from the colleges Universidad de Colima and Universidad Autónoma de Cohauila were applied a survey in 2015, 2016 and 2017. One of the main findings is that neither the access to the technological repertoire or the digital skills, are conditions enough to enhance the personal autonomy in this young students, which is a condition for the human development.