Digital technologies: enabling or limiting?

The public university and the needs of the socio-territorial organizations of Jujuy before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

This article analyzes the experience developed during the PST seminar “Technologiesand socio-territorial organizations: expansion of the right to education in Jujuy.” It waspresented by the Technology, Culture and Knowledge chair of the Faculty of Philosophyand Letters of the University of Buenos Aires and conceived as a space for co-constructionof communicative tools and products adequate to the needs expressed by some socioterritorialorganizations of Jujuy during 2020, which were looking for digital tools todisseminate products, convene meetings, inform about rights and produce educationalresources. Some interesting issues that are addressed here are: it was developed remotely,with synchronous and asynchronous meetings, to respond to the urgent needs of ASPO,when -precisely- one of the obstacles was the lack of connectivity and the problems ofavailable digital equipment. This motivated significant reflections regarding appropriateand relevant languages, modes and communication strategies. In this context, the articleaddresses the enabling and limiting nature of digital technologies, and the variation indemands and opportunities that arose as isolation was left behind.