Model to recover the Colombian cultural identity based on ICT strategy

This document is part of a research done from Master Science in Telecommunications Engineering program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, that links three strategies for interconnection which aim is to rescue the culture in the country from the schools. The current document shows a development model to be incorporated in Colombian education and describes three fundamental axes for its implementation. Initially a description of the present educative organization in Colombia for the levels of elementary and high school education is done. Then, it focuses attention on the obligatory area of Technology and Computing extending the information with the advantages that this area has to the model by its varied alternatives of implementation and the promotion of competences for this decade. The proposal is articulated with the use of free software, the advantages that this has against the alternative of proprietary software and the existing relation with the increase in the use of pirate software in Latin America. The third axis considers the context of the competences that the teachers who implement the model must have, and finally, there is a description of the integration of the three elements mentioned and allows being viable within the educative policies in the following decade for Colombia.