Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) como servicios públicos esenciales en Argentina. El rol del Estado en la ampliación de la ciudadanía

Abstract

In the following article we propose to analyze how the Universal and Compulsory Basic Benefit was originated and developed, a public policy created by the Argentine State to guarantee access to Information and Communication Technologies services, decreed within essential public services. In the context of the covid-19 pandemic, we take this case to study how public policies are formulated, the expansion of political and social citizenship, the regulatory role of the State based on its characteristics and definitions within a certain historical, political and economic context, and the responses that this generates in the market forces and with which the State often comes into contradiction and tension.