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 “Technologies
and socio-territorial organizations: expansion of the right to education in Jujuy.” It was
presented by the Technology, Culture and Knowledge chair of the Faculty of Philosophy
and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires and conceived as a space for co-construction
of communicative tools and products adequate to the needs expressed by some socioterritorial
organizations of Jujuy during 2020, which were looking for digital tools to
disseminate products, convene meetings, inform about rights and produce educational
resources. 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 of
available digital equipment. This motivated significant reflections regarding appropriate
and relevant languages, modes and communication strategies. In this context, the article
addresses the enabling and limiting nature of digital technologies, and the variation in
demands and opportunities that arose as isolation was left behind.