La Brecha digital como expresión de la desigualdad territorial: hacia la constitucionalización de la prohibición de la exclusión territorial

The Digital Divide as an Expression of Territorial Inequality: towards Constitutionalizing the Prohibition of Territorial Exclusion

Abstract

Inequality by virtue of the territory is a factor that generates exclusion in the satisfaction of the rights of the inhabitants of vulnerable or marginalized areas, as is the case of access to digital technologies, which is verified in various parts of the world, Latin America and Of course Columbia. The study aims to demonstrate how territorial inequality is definitely a factor of discrimination that deserves to be legally and expressly prohibited like others that already are: race, religion, political affiliation, ideological, sex, economic condition, among others. The phenomenon of the digital divide is used to verify this situation, since the differences in access to technologies, especially the most recent ones such as the Internet and its different modalities, are generated, among other causes, by the differences between vulnerable territories and the most advantaged ones. To achieve the objective, the category equality, discrimination in general, then territorial discrimination and finally the digital divide will be managed, making references to several countries, including Colombia. The correlation of territory and technological inequalities that contribute to reinforce the thesis of constitutional and normative prohibition in general of the territory as a factor of discrimination is demonstrated.