Title: Creation of an ICT appropriation unit as a mechanism for relating with the environment. Case: Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Santo Tomás

Authors: Juliana Arevalo-Herrera; Tatiana Zona-Ortiz; Carlos Hernán Fajardo-Toro; Sebastián Arias

Addresses: Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Santo Tomas University, 110231 Chapinero, Bogotá, Colombia ' Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Santo Tomas University, 110231 Chapinero, Bogotá, Colombia ' Public Administration Faculty, Escuela Superior de Administración Pública – ESAP, 760046, Cali, Colombia ' Department of Telecommunications Engineerin, Santo Tomas University, 110231 Chapinero, Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: Innovation in a society is energised by cooperation between academia and industry. The Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering of the Universidad Santo Tomás, aware of this reality, has structured a unit for technology transfer called the ICT Appropriation Unit, based on the capabilities of its professors and students, which operates in synergy with the activities of the substantive functions. This structure allows the generation of ICT appropriation processes in communities and individuals. It also allows technology transfer from the academy to the environment in two ways, in collaboration with industry and with the generation of enterprises from the unit.

Keywords: ICT consultancy; ICT appropriation; teaching; research; social projection.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2025.143627

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2025 Vol.16 No.1/2, pp.134 - 147

Received: 30 May 2023
Accepted: 25 Sep 2023
Published online: 02 Jan 2025 *

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