Abstract:

The Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca (UTM) is the largest university in the Mixtec Region in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a public university proposing and using a new model of education for development. A major proposal is to make a difference in the economics of the region, so that the way of live of the young people could improve. UTM began operations on February 1990. Actually it has about 1,204 full-time students and 149 full-time professors- researchers. In March 2011, the university will have 16 alumni generations.
An institutional project needs to be developed that allows to link and to communicate the university with the alumni, through an integral program of permanent contact that provide to both, useful accesses of information that help to strength their professional, personal and cultural development and to preserve them, as much as their identity.
Based on the previous ideas, we propose to create and to develop an information system not only for the relationships of the university with its alumni, but also that generates connections with the companies, the government, institutions, universities and between the same alumni. The information system will be supported by a technological platform, which will allow to generate data and statistical information that will be used to do important research.
This new project is an innovation in the public universities of the region, which will allow UTM to generate links that propitiate the development of the Mixtec Region. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present, as the first phase, the methodology of conception, analysis, design, development and implementation of the different stages of the institutional project for linkages. In other papers, the analysis, design, operation and results are going to be showed.

Keywords:

Institutional project, alumni, university linkages, information system, Mixtec Region, Oaxaca, Mexico.