Mexico Team II Pages Overview The Internet and The Information Guide to this Site Who we are Revolution in Mexico "E-commerce is to the Information Revolution what the railroad Introduction was to the Industrial Revolution — a totally new, totally unprecedented, totally unexpected development…In the new An introduction to mental geography created by the railroad, humanity mastered Mexico distance. In the mental geography of e-commerce, distance has The Information been eliminated." Revolution Peter F. Drucker — "Beyond the Information Revolution" in The Atlantic Monthly (October 1999) Background What is this site about? Communications This site represents the output for a Labour Markets class project conducted by Stanford Education University undergraduate and Nature and Access of postgraduate students. The course Opportunity — a joint class offered by the Latin Financing American Studies and Computer Private Sector Science Departments, is called "The Government Policies Information Revolution in Latin America: Obstacles and Analysis Opportunities through the Internet". Our class has split into 9 teams investigating current situation and future trends in the adoption and usage of Ministry of Public internet technologies in different Latin American countries. The class objective Education is to produce output that: Infosel Mexico in Latin "draws from multiple disciplines to analyze the opportunities and obstacles the Information Revolution presents for newly America developing countries in Latin America." Conclusions Our team is focused on understanding internet opportunities and obstacles in Mexico. Positive Outlook Future Roadblocks Our site is split into seven sections: Concluding Remarks 1. the Overview (this page) giving the high level guide to this site and who we are; Special 2. the Introduction, acting as a starting point for discussion of the Mexican Section: environment in particular and the Information Revolution in general; E-Commerce 3. the Background Research, detailing many of the key factors that influence the course of the Information Revolution in Mexico; Resources ❍ Communications Useful links ❍ Labour Markets http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/index.html (1 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:13 PM] Mexico Team II Pages Feedback/Discussion ❍ Education Contact us ❍ Nature and Access of Opportunity ❍ Financing ❍ Private Sector ❍ Government Policies 4. the Analysis section, where we evaluate the progress of the Information Revolution in Mexico, and look at two case studies in a little more detail: the Ministry of Public Education and Infosel. 5. our Conclusions where we summarize our take-away findings from our work - the positive points for Mexico and potential pitfalls, as well as our concluding remarks; 6. The E-commerce section, where we analyze the factors at play in successfully bringing e-commerce into mexico ; and 7. a Resources section where we suggest useful links which we have discovered in the course of our work, provide a forum for posting feedback, and supply a contact for website details. The Team: Will Budreau — Stanford University — Symbolic Systems Department — Undergraduate Lisa Marino — Stanford University — Latin American Studies Department — Post Graduate Simon Morris — Stanford University — Graduate School of Business — MBA Student Bernardo Naranjo — Stanford University — School of Education — Post Graduate Last revised 12/06/99 contact webmaster http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/index.html (2 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:13 PM] Overview of the Internet Revolution in Mexico The Internet and The Information Revolution in Mexico "E-commerce is to the Information Revolution what the railroad was to the Industrial Revolution — a totally new, totally unprecedented, totally unexpected development…In the new mental geography created by the railroad, humanity mastered distance. In the mental geography of e-commerce, distance has been eliminated." Peter F. Drucker — "Beyond the Information Revolution" in The Atlantic Monthly (October 1999) What is this site about? This site represents the output for a class project conducted by Stanford University undergraduate and postgraduate students. The course — a joint class offered by the Latin American Studies and Computer Science Departments, is called "The Information Revolution in Latin America: Obstacles and Opportunities through the Internet". Our class has split into 9 teams investigating current situation and future trends in the adoption and usage of internet technologies in different Latin American countries. The class objective is to produce output that: "draws from multiple disciplines to analyze the opportunities and obstacles the Information Revolution presents for newly developing countries in Latin America." Our team is focused on understanding internet opportunities and obstacles in Mexico. Our site is split into seven sections: 1. the Overview (this page) giving the high level guide to this site and who we are; 2. the Introduction, acting as a starting point for discussion of the Mexican environment in particular and the Information Revolution in general; 3. the Background Research, detailing many of the key factors that influence the course of the Information Revolution in Mexico; ❍ Communications ❍ Labour Markets ❍ Education ❍ Nature and Access of Opportunity ❍ Financing ❍ Private Sector ❍ Government Policies 4. the Analysis section, where we evaluate the progress of the Information Revolution in Mexico, http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/overview.html (1 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:20 PM] Overview of the Internet Revolution in Mexico and look at two case studies in a little more detail: the Ministry of Public Education and Infosel. 5. our Conclusions where we summarize our take-away findings from our work - the positive points for Mexico and potential pitfalls, as well as our concluding remarks; 6. The E-commerce section, where we analyze the factors at play in successfully bringing e-commerce into mexico ; and 7. a Resources section where we suggest useful links which we have discovered in the course of our work, provide a forum for posting feedback, and supply a contact for website details. The Team: Will Budreau — Stanford University — Symbolic Systems Department — Undergraduate Lisa Marino — Stanford University — Latin American Studies Department — Post Graduate Simon Morris — Stanford University — Graduate School of Business — MBA Student Bernardo Naranjo — Stanford University — School of Education — Post Graduate Last revised 12/06/99 contact webmaster http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/overview.html (2 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:20 PM] GENERAL INFORMATION: GENERAL INFORMATION Official Name: Estados Unidos Mexicanos Territory: 1’972,547 square kilometers Population: 93.7 millon (1995, see table for state by state population) Capital: Mexico City Currency: Mexican Peso (US$1 = MX$9.75 in October 1999) GNP: US$414,986.4 million dollars. GNP per capita: US$4,400 Political organization, History and Festivities Political Organization: ● Government ● Parties The government is divided into executive, legislative and judicial branches. The executive branch is headed by a President democratically elected every six years without the possibility of reelection. The legislative branch is divided into a Camara de Diputados (with 500 representatives, 300 of them directly elected, while 200 are assigned to each political party according to the number of votes obtained) and the Camara de Senadores (with 128 senators, 4 for each one of the 31 states and 4 for the Federal District). Please visit www.camaradediputados.gob.mx and www.senado.gob.mx for more information. Judicial system has been recently restructured to ensure the autonomy of its members (www.scjn.gob.mx/default.asp). There are multiple political parties covering all the political spectrum. The governing party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) has not lost any presidential election since its creation in 1929 (www.pri.org.mx). The Partido Acción Nacional (born in 1939) has been identified with the right wing: it won its first state election until this decade (www.pan.org.mx). Currently, the PAN controls important states such as Jalisco and Nuevo León. The Partido de la Revolución Democrática is a coalition of left wing organizations originated after the presidential election of 1988 (www.cen-prd.org.mx). The "moral" leader of the party was elected mayor of Mexico City in 1997 and the PRD also controls states like Tlaxcala and Zacatecas. Other minor political parties include the Partido Verde Ecologista de México, the http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/general.html (1 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:51 PM] GENERAL INFORMATION: Partido del Trabajo, The Partido Auténtico de la Revolución Mexicana and some other newer organizations. History: José Clemente Orozco: "La Reforma" A good overview of Mexican history in English is provided in the webpage of the Office of the President of Mexico. The most important civic festivities are: ● September 16th (Independence Day) ● November 20th (Revolution Day) ● May 5th (Battle vs France), ● March 21st (Benito Juárez’s anniversary) The most representative religious festivities are: ● December 25th (Christmas) ● December 12th (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe’s day) ● November 2nd (Día de los Muertos) ● Semana Santa (March - April) Back to the Overview http://www.stanford.edu/~binain/mexico/general.html (2 of 2) [12/13/1999 4:36:51 PM] Population per Gender and State Population per Gender and State Baja Baja Distrito Estado de Nuevo Quintana San Luis NATIONAL