Collaborative content production model to reduce digital divide

Abstract

Nowadays, the digital divide in underdeveloped countries is not about the provision of infrastructure and Internet connectivity, is about innovation in models and strategies for digital literacy and digital content generation. In additions, the differences in terms of access and ICT skills between different groups in society have created a problem of digital divide. To overcome this kind of problems, models and strategies are required to achieve a greater impact on the citizen and that population can develop skills that enhance inclusion in the society knowledge. This work addresses the digital divide issue as a challenge to achieve the knowledge society; it proposes a collaborative content production architectural model to generate content in order to mitigate the digital divide. This is a model-centered approach in order to have a massive content production to facilitate the integration of users with different skills. Finally, a case study describes the use of proposed architectural model in order to reduce the digital divide for large communities of librarians of in México.