From the (re) configuration of informational capitalism in Haiti to the Economy of violence

Abstract

ABSTRACT It is an analysis of informational capitalism in Haiti, in its most emblematic proposal in the information and knowledge society. It aims to apprehend the dimension and instrumentalization of the categories “information-knowledge-technology” as matrices of social and economic development, in the aspirations of configuring (re) productive processes, social work organization and dynamics of the triggering of social, cultural and political processes resulting from the ideals of well-being emanating from the bets of the information and knowledge society. Through a documentary analysis, the conditions, possibilities of (re) configuration of this economic model in the country and the impacts of its origins and applications on the society are studied. In the configuration of informational capitalism in Haiti, there is a new direction of causality that is established among interest groups, political and economic institutions; and the capture of the state that results from it becomes the “modus operandi”, with its perverse effects on the creation and distribution of wealth in the economy. These effects are reproductive of an economic organization torn by poverty and social inequality in the country, including the emigration of the country's workforce.

Keywords: Informational Capitalism; Information and Knowledge Society; Information-Knowledge-Technology; Development; Territorial Governance.