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En este libro se presentan los temas discutidos durante el Seminario "La educación en la era de la informática", realizado en Cartagena, Colombia en julio de 1997. El evento fue organizado por el BID y la Comisión Mundial para la Infraestructura de la Información. Technology is not a magic solution. Not everything works and nothing is easy. There are no "push-button" solutions. To be effective, specific technology must be carefully matched to the need and the environment. These two principles - the promise of technology and the need for caution in its application were the topics of a 1997 seminar sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. Education in the Information Age brings together the experience of academics, school officials, and representatives from business and government who participated in the seminar. Their presentations are not about new ideas or theoretical formulations, but rather about the more pedestrian but often more arduous task of finding out what works in putting information technology to use in education. Stephen A. Quick is Manager of the Strategic Planning and Operational Policy Department of the IDB. Claudio de Moura Castro is Chief Education Advisor in the Sustainable Development Department of the IDB.