ICTs for Social Inclusion: A New Challenge in Engineering Education

Abstract

We, as engineers, are expected 10 solve human needs. Social inclusion is, undoubtedly, one of them. The ability to access, adapt, and create new knowledge, using new information and communication technology, is critical to social inclusion in today's era, but having access, doesn't guarantee that it is all access socially meaningful. Social inclusion requires not only a set of basic requirements, like health, food, living conditions, etc., but ICTs access, and education for making these technologies significant for living. The question is, how to solve people's problems through ICTs and, moreover. how this issue can be taught in all engineering course. The challenge is to get more engineers involved in these activities and the way to do it is, to promote them among our students. What I'm posing here, and that will be the central premise of this paper, is that we need to include this subject within the engineering education.