DISPOSITIVOS ESTRATÉGICOS DE INFORMACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO: 25 AÑOS DE EXPERIENCIA EN LOS TERRITORIOS RURALES DE BAJA DENSIDAD EN ESPAÑA

Abstract

The use and handling of information has been important in rural areas on issues such as the recovery of valuable traditional knowledge, learning, and participation of different communities, the latter point has evolved through strategic devices that have improved dissemination of information in terms of quality, coverage and efficiency, all these for the benefit of users. The Institute for Community Development in Cuenca, Spain, has worked with the delivery of information to the rural community in areas of low density for 25 years in this period of time, information devices and transfer channels have evolved according to the needs of users. Today's technological advances have allowed the time to update the information expansion in coverage and the best way to reach them; this work systematized information devices used by this institution, and discusses their applicability to other territories. Keywords: information; knowledge; participation; strategic devices; rural community; low-density areas