El artículo se orienta a analizar cómo el sector educativo en Uruguay se adaptó mediante el uso de las TICs en un período de pandemia, así como las medidas que se tomaron para mitigar dichos efectos secundarios y sus cambios. Esto fue producto de una sólida Educación basada en Competencias; ha sido esto posible debido a las medidas tomadas por el Gobierno Nacional, y en una planificación resumida haciendo hincapié en las Competencias. En particular se indaga en los beneficios del aprendizaje basado en competencias en una comunidad pequeña y su implementación a las grandes comunidades. Se presenta el ejemplo de la suspensión de clases a nivel nacional en la República Oriental del Uruguay, y a posterior se analizan los datos de aprendizaje acorde los niveles de cada individuo. A partir de estos análisis se observa que, en la reformulación de la metodología de enseñanza en la educación, tiene su complemento fundamental en las Competencias para la correcta implementación, adaptándose a la Nueva Normalidad. Las implicancias que tienen quienes no poseen las Competencias de las personas o los integrantes de los equipos, no se adaptan a las demandas del mercado, pierden su posicionamiento y quedan varados en el tiempo. El aprendizaje basado en Competencias será la clave fundamental para alcanzar el éxito de los objetivos estipulados.

The work carried out analyzes whether the implementation of a telework system provides benefits to the workers of the public telecommunications company of Uruguay, Antel. The research arises after the company completely abandoned the telework application carried out during the global pandemic of Covid-19, leaving many workers dissatisfied and demanding the continuity, at least partially, of that form of work organization. In the study, telework was selected as the independent variable, while the dependent variables chosen were job satisfaction and emotional salary. A quantitative methodology was used with the application of a questionnaire validated in previous research, with suitable characteristics for carrying out the fieldwork. The results obtained confirmed the research hypotheses, corroborating with sufficient statistical evidence that the implementation of an adequate telework system increases job satisfaction and emotional salary of the company's workers. In turn, it is observed that the implementation of this work modality is associated with operational efficiency, digitalization of the company's processes, and the development of ICT. It is concluded that the implementation of a partial, voluntary, reversible, and agreed telework system between the parties would allow obtaining the benefits that arise from the application of this work modality, reducing the barriers and weaknesses identified with remote work.

The global demographic dynamics with increasing numbers of young people will have varying socio-economic effects on low-income countries. The extreme poverty of young people, particularly in rural areas, is still much higher compared to the global average. Creating more and better jobs for young people is therefore an urgent priority of the century. Despite the recognized driving role of the agribusiness in economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction, there is evidence of a disengagement/disinterest of young people towards agribusiness. This study aimed to analyze the attitudes and perceptions of rural youth towards agribusiness as a profession career in South Kivu province. To deeply understand the complexity and cross-cutting nature of this issue, a systemic approach was used. A Likert-type questionnaire with a 5-points scale was used to conduct the survey among 456 rural youth aged 15 to 35 randomly selected using the Bernoulli Urn technique in Kabare, Walungu and Uvira territories. The study revealed that 53.5% of young people have a negative attitude towards agribusiness, 29.8% display a neutral attitude and only 16.7% of them show a positive attitude. 76.3% confirmed that they can only engage in agriculture when they have no other job. 77.6% declared that agribusiness cannot enable them to meet all their basic needs. After verifying the normality of the data, the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests, were used to compare the perception scores of the different groups analyzed. The study revealed a statistically significant difference in personal and societal perceptions scores between different age groups, between men and women, as well as between different education level groups. A statistically significant difference in the economic perceptions scores was observed only between the different survey areas.

In the last five years, advancements in computing power have brought about a surge in artificial intelligence (AI). Directly or indirectly, a significant number of systems have started incorporating AI algorithms or implementations into their functionality to perform various tasks. These implementations range from machine learning models to natural language processing and image processing, among many others. The development of a computer program requires technical skills, and it also necessitates the application of a project management model capable of incorporating and adapting to the new technologies integrated into the development process. This study examines whether the inclusion of a new AI technology as a functional requirement in the development of a product impacts the project management effort by measuring the hours devoted to this task. The research aims to answer the following research question: i) ¿Is there any difference in the effort and hours dedicated to project management in software development projects that include some form of artificial intelligence technology as part of their functionality? To address this question, a non-experimental quantitative documentary research approach is employed, using descriptive statistics as a quantification tool. The study encompasses the entire analyzed population, and the results highlight that the effort in management tasks does not show significant differences.

The investigative study aims to determine the relationship between coaching and empowerment to achieve high performance in the automotive sector of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Within the study, Barrett's theory (2017) is part of the model of the seven levels of consciousness: survival, relationships, self-esteem, transformation, internal cohesion, making a difference and service, this represents a powerful potential in the human being in the companies that direct leaders to improve the organizational culture and promote business success to meet goals. The study methodology is quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, basic, with a descriptive-correlational approach. The study population is 30 workers from two companies in the automotive sector, where a census study was carried out through a questionnaire to find out how coaching and empowerment are related in the automotive sector. In the results, a significant relationship between coaching and empowerment was obtained, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted, the association is significant at 0.000, with a strong positive Spearman correlation coefficient of = .637 to; Through this, the implementation of strategies with coaching sessions generates a high benefit within the business environment and promotes high performance in the management of human talent of the company's workers.

The efficient and effective incorporation of the sustainable element within product design and manufacturing companies has proven to be a competitive tool to attract new markets and at the same time, a complex challenge. The ISO 14006 Standard regulates the incorporation of the so-called "eco-design" in the creative stage of a project, but within the Mexican context, its integration inside micro, small and medium-sized companies has proven to be complex, because the vision which it contemplates comes from an Eurocentric context, where it is assumed that all companies have the necessary resources to incorporate better technologies, but within the Mexican reality, in which these small companies incorporate semi-artisanal processes, the effective and efficient implementation of such Standard results almost impossible to integrate and it is necessary to analyze viable alternatives to help them achieve it. Through a diagnostic questionnaire and an in-depth interview conducted to a panel of experts formed up by academics, industry leaders, and designers, focusing on the reality experienced by Mexican product companies and the challenges they face when addressing the integration of the environmental element to their projects, such is the case of the ISO 14006 standard. Amongst the findings there is a list of the challenges faced by small companies when incorporating the Standard, a description of the design processes within them and the contribution of a new design profile, capable of addressing complex projects, facilitating the transition of companies towards a more sustainable ones, closing with a discussion focused on the scope, challenges, and limitations of incorporating said change.

If anything can be considered today’s society backbone, this is the technology, and with it, the digital world. As citizens it is impossible to ignore it and living apart of it because it has a decisive role in every day-by-day aspect. Furthermore, most population perceive technologies as entertainment tool; however, it is interesting to give coming generations some strategies for using technologies to improve the world. This project has the objective of applying 4.0 technologies to take care of the city through the students’ application proposals. To achieve this the methodology has been the use of technology for creating content with civic purposes. The results are shown divided into two branches; on the one hand there are the students and their pedagogical objectives and on the other there are the citizens and their perceptions about the services given by 4.0 technologies in their daily lives, so, as a result, it has been a benefit to their community and a generalized use of the applications by the citizens. Overall, it has been a motivational and useful activity for the student’s future.

Consumer behavior is a multidisciplinary research area of interest to various disciplines such as economics, management, and marketing. It has been treated from different approaches that have emphasized the incidence of economic, social, psychological, demographic, cultural factors and, of the context, in the actions of consumers when choosing the goods and services that they will consume. The objective of this article was to explain the main effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the behavior of food consumers in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). Methodologically, it was based on the postulates of a quantitative investigation supported by the review of specialized literature and, in the application of a questionnaire to a group of consumers who make their purchases in the Los Pozos Municipal Retail Market located in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). In the conclusions of the investigation, it was highlighted that the main effects of the COVID -19 pandemic were evident in: a) the emergence of a new factor in consumer purchasing choices, which, due to its sanitary nature, was reflected in the increase in purchases of antibacterial gel, alcohol, liquid soap, among other personal care items and; b) the importance acquired by online purchases and delivery. Such effects have a positive character and have been incorporated into the culture of consumers, since they facilitate the satisfaction of their consumption needs.

As a result of the investigative process carried out in Popayán, it is concluded that Urban Resilience, it is the capacity and ability of an urban system to maintain its functionality in the face of impacts or catastrophes of natural or anthropic origin, being a continuous and dynamic process implemented in the public, private and community sectors, whose objective is to anticipate events that modify social, economic factors , physical, environmental and cultural of a city, with a look that promotes the return to normality and the improvement of the existing conditions before the occurrence of the event. On the other hand, considering Adequate Social Housing, as a basic need of every human being, construction immersed in an urban environment affected by various territorial, structural, social or organizational vulnerabilities, an articulation is proposed between the theory on Urban Resilience and Adequate Housing promoted by the United Nations Organization, its inclusion and applicability in processes of design, improvement and approval of these projects in the city of Popayán - Colombia. The resulting analyzes show a low inclusion of Urban Resilience in the regulations on social housing at  the national and local level, reflected in the importance given to financing and provisions to make it affordable to the population, with medium inclusion at the academic level and low at the professional level. Also indicating the need to generate and implement territorial strategies of a political-administrative nature, in the long term, that involve these concepts in the development of Social Interest Housing at the urban level.

The objective of this research is to determine the factors related to the digital maturity of manufacturing SMEs in the state of Nuevo León, in order to contribute to the knowledge about their digital transformation. Through the literature review, five independent variables were defined: knowledge absorption capacity, level of technological infrastructure, organizational culture, innovation capacity and company environment; as a dependent variable, the degree of digital maturity was defined. The research design was quantitative, cross-sectional, with an exploratory and descriptive correlational scope. A survey was designed for data collection and validated by a panel of experts in the field. To check its reliability, a pilot test was conducted, and Cronbach's Alpha was measured. It was then applied to employees and managers of 69 manufacturing SMEs in the state. From the data, a multiple linear regression model was generated in SPSS software, which was subjected to various statistical tests to evaluate the variables and their significance. The model was approved. The results indicated that three of the variables, knowledge absorption capacity, level of technological infrastructure and company environment were significant with a p-value < 0.05. Additionally, specific analyses were recommended for the two variables that were not accepted. From the statistical analysis, an equation was obtained to measure the degree of digital maturity in manufacturing SMEs in Nuevo León that contributes to the progress in the digital transformation of manufacturing companies in the state.