With the exception of the Frente de Todos, most parties raise ideas and diffuse proposals for the areas of science, technology and connectivity. The conclusion comes from reading their electoral platforms.
Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio, in Spanish), ensures that the country needs to enter “intelligently” into the flows of knowledge and commerce that structure the world economy. For that, we must recover the social place of "entrepreneurship" (sic): have more and better companies to transform effort and talent into qualified goods and services. And to achieve this, the links between “the business community and the scientific-technological community” must be strengthened.
The text sees an opportunity for growth in knowledge-based services. If they did not develop properly, it was because of the obstacles of the State. On the other hand, the extension of the “immense” public fiber optic network, carried out by Arsat, is a pillar of the territorial redesign of Argentina, which has already begun.
The ruling alliance promised to present another expanded platform before October, but at the close of this edition - on September 30 - it had not done so.
On its platform, the Frente de Todos (Front of All, in Spanish) dedicates ample space to thinking about the future in the areas of science and technology (in the September issue of Convergencia Telemática clues are revealed about what Alberto Fernández would do in those areas and in digital economy). Proposes the intensive use of digital technologies in the State to simplify processes and improve the relationship with citizens; organize technological and engineering clusters that develop 4.0 technologies around agriculture, oil and mining to generate employment and substitute imports; expand access to higher education through digital media. And generate a scientific-technological articulation plan applied to the social and popular economy.
Alberto Fernández's party promises to return to the category of ministry in the area of ??Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. And from there reconfigure the system of promotion of research, technological development and innovation projects for public and private initiatives. The Science and Technology agenda, he says, will have a prominent role in emerging themes.
Articulating university policies with the public sector, he proposes to elaborate projections on the scientific-technological and vocational training requirements in the medium and long term.
At the research level, he promises to recompose salaries and expand resources by increasing investment; thus, generate more opportunities for researchers to work in public organizations. The socioeconomic development of the country will be based on a synergy between the “scientific, technological and productive systems of Defense and the university system and national R&D institutes (CONAE, CONEA, Antarctic Institute, FADEA, CINAR, INVAP, CITEDEF)”, affirms in the text of the platform.
In case of winning, the government will promote a new stage in the public production of medicines and in projects of nuclear energy and satellite services.
Federal Consensus, with Roberto Lavagna as a candidate, has among its main points an integral development project of the country. It consists of modernizing the economy to make it competitive. For that, he proposes to immediately deploy the sectors that have export potential, such as the "knowledge industries". The most concrete mention of technologies appears when talking about provisioning security forces.
In the 20 points of his program, the Left Front of Workers-Unity (Frente de Izquierda de Trabajadores-Unidad , in Spanish) makes no mention of science and ICT issues. The same absence is recorded on the issue in the 13 proposals of the Awakened Front (Frente Despertar, in Spanish), by José Luis Espert.