Challenges, inequalities and COVID-19: Examples from indigenous Oaxaca, Mexico

Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Mata-Sánchez, Nydia Delhi

doi:10.1080/17441692.2020.1868548

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“…Even before the pandemic, there existed an evident digital inequality in the country ( García-Mora & Mora-Rivera, 2021 ; Martínez-Domínguez, 2020 ). However, the public health crisis has further widened the digital divide in school-age children due to the lack of internet connection in their homes and the lack of digital skills needed to use these technologies ( Cohen & Mata-Sánchez, 2021 ; Lorente, Arrabal, & Pulido-Montes, 2020 ).…”

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Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic

Martínez-Domínguez

Fierros‐González

2022

Telecommunications Policy

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The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the deep digital divide in Mexico and the enormous challenge faced by its education system in continuing to educate the country's students while under confinement. The objective of this article was to examine the determinants of internet acces s, use and productive uses for school-age children in households of different socioeconomic levels. The Heckman selection model was estimated based on data taken from the Encuesta Nacional sobre Disponibilidad y Uso de Tecnologías de la Información en los Hogares (ENDUTIH or National Survey on the Availability and Use of Information Technologies in the Household) 2018. The results obtained show that the probability of having children internet accessing and usage patterns (homework, courses, and blogs) depends on level of schooling, economic status, digital skills, and place of residence, as well as the presence of electronic devices and infomediaries in the household. These findings suggest the urgent need to redesign current ICT policy with a long-term integrated vision that guarantees access to ICTs and their productive use for students immersed in an ecosystem of educational innovation for the XXI century.

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Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic

Martínez-Domínguez

Fierros‐González

2022

Telecommunications Policy

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“…These actions were also reported in national news coverage (Ibrahim, 2020;Malek, 2020;Yusof, 2020). Such measures have also been documented in other Indigenous communities in other parts of the world such as in the United States and Mexico (Cohen & Mata-Sánchez, 2021;Leonard, 2020). These control points also monitored the comings and goings of villagers and ensured that they followed the lockdown rules.…”

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Indigenous resilience and the COVID-19 response: a situation report on the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia

Idrus

2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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In this situation report, we discuss the response of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia, to COVID-19, focusing specifically on the community’s actions to protect themselves from the coronavirus during the government-imposed lockdown. Drawing from an Indigenous understanding of illness and health, the Orang Asli took the threat of the pandemic seriously and responded with proactive steps to keep their community safe, which included setting up barricades and checkpoints to control movement into their villages, performing health maintenance rituals and prayers and retreating into the forest. We argue that the Orang Asli’s response mitigated the spread of the virus into their villages. Their adaptation and resilience emphasize the need to respect their traditional knowledge and way of life, as well as the importance of strengthening the Orang Asli’s control over their traditional territories and environment.

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“…The rest of the Mexican student population with difficult access to the digital modality have maintained their teaching activities with total uncertainty, and have limited themselves to being in a teaching model of task submission and printed material to work from home and, in the best cases, to have frequent face-to-face sessions once a week. In Mexico, as in many developing countries [17], the reality of virtual education during the pandemic had two contexts: (a) those who adapted and maintained a resilient learning status and (b) those who were in precarious conditions, educational backwardness and each day tried to adapt to the systematization of education, whose progress achieved up to now, was voraciously consumed by the pandemic, leading to further lagging of the rural educational system [18][19][20]; the latter is the representation of the majority of Mexicans. Both contexts proposed to cover all educational levels, from the basic level called "Primaria" to the higher level, "Universitario" [21].…”

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COVID-19 Pandemic Effect on Energy Consumption in State Universities: Michoacan, Mexico Case Study

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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated multiple impacts. In particular, in the educational sector, the virtual class modality generated changes in the patterns of energy consumption at the institutional level; the identification of this consumption will allow us to reflect on new energy saving and efficient use strategies. In this research, we present a case study of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on electricity consumption in 13 state universities in Michoacán, Mexico. Electric energy consumption has been evaluated before and during the presence of the COVID-19 between 2019 and 2020. The comparative analysis estimated the reduction in energy consumption and its economic and environmental impact. The results show a considerable decrease in electricity consumption, generating an average saving of 76.24 MWh/month, which translates into an annual emission reduction from 2019 to 2020 of approximately 497 TnCO2e, and in economic terms of $8,882.25 USD each month. In general, it was identified that consumption patterns in the use of machinery and computer equipment for administrative activities were drastically reduced. If education continues in virtual or hybrid modes, energy consumption schemes will continue to decline and institutions could move towards resilient, affordable, and sustainable models of energy production and consumption.

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Challenges, inequalities and COVID-19: Examples from indigenous Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 35 publications

References 54 publications

Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic

Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic

Indigenous resilience and the COVID-19 response: a situation report on the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia

COVID-19 Pandemic Effect on Energy Consumption in State Universities: Michoacan, Mexico Case Study

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