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such as massive open online courses (MOOC) [8] and The University of People
(www.uopeople.edu). Finally, in the social and economic fields, we have seen large museums

such as The Louvre Museum (www.louvre.fr) making available to the general public an

enormous amount of multimedia information about their collections, completely free of

charge via the Internet; organizations such as Airbnb (www.airbnb.com), Uber
(www.uber.com) and MercadoLibre (www.mercadolibre.com) making it easier for individuals

and small businesses to offer their products and services to the world, and to compete in

markets previously closed to them; services like Wordpress (wordpress.com) and Youtube
(www, youtube.com) enabling millions of users to make their voice heard by billions around

the world.

It seems, at first glance, that digital technology has given rise to a society of abundance, at

least in its digital dimension, with important implications for the physical world that

supports it. A society where access to information and knowledge is free, where customers
abound for our products and services, regardless of our geographical location or the size of

our company. A society with vocation to sharing, cooperation and collaboration, and a

cyberspace where doing so becomes more productive and satisfying than accumulating wealth
at the expense of the poverty of others. A world where our Latin America is positioned with

advantage over the more developed countries, given the ecological and cultural richness it

can offer to the world via the digital dimension, as well as its surplus of digital natives [9]
capable of building wonders with zeros and ones.

The fact is that such a world does exist, but not for everyone. The so-called society of

information abundance at the beginning of the 21st century is, in this sense, more unjust

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