Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
A<br />
public policy of social inclusion can be spelled out only from the analysis<br />
of cumulative exclusion process, which is worsen with new information<br />
and communication technologies development.<br />
Firstly, because it increases the exclusion on basic rights sector of information.<br />
The comprehension that the digital inclusion process takes<br />
part in a citizenship arrangement places us on the right to information, knowledge<br />
and communication context. The access to information is a basic right of every<br />
democratic society based on pluralism, tolerance, justice and mutual respect. Without<br />
information, we have no awareness about our rights and no means to assure it.<br />
When talking about digital inclusion, it refers to a new right culture, not only about<br />
general right to Internet, but also to access to information as a public asset.<br />
Secondly, because it increases the relationship between social and territorial exclusion.<br />
One of the aspects that feature in the Urban Reform is the understanding<br />
that the guarantee of rights is the access to collective facilities. Ensuring the right to<br />
housing, education and health, along with the right to the city, in Urban Reform,<br />
are linked to urban and community equipment access democratization and demand<br />
an infrastructure to be effective. Likewise, access to new information technologies<br />
imposes demands on new means of collective equipment and public assets capable<br />
of ensuring access to information networks.<br />
The path initially taken by the NGOs, and then followed by governments to<br />
overcome the huge distance between the entire Brazilian population and the opportunities<br />
of the digital age, was the installation of community facilities — computer<br />
centers — basically working on digital literacy sector. Information technology associations<br />
and schools, deployed mostly without Internet access, were argued by the<br />
very innovation speed and by social needs and community demands.<br />
In the late 1990s, public policies drafts of digital inclusion were developed in Brazil.<br />
Somehow, the work and income policies trajectories are reproduced in the digital<br />
inclusion sector. Just as we can notice, primarily, particular work and income activities<br />
that didn’t generate joined mobilization and action in terms of local development, the<br />
telecenters trajectory, designed separately and in a peer to peer digital inclusion, didn’t<br />
incorporate a more comprehensive and integrated view of local development.<br />
The path of telecenters public policies needed to consider some of the dilemmas<br />
NGOs had experienced. First, the issue of access, which can’t be restricted to a single<br />
technological dimension or telecommunications sector structure. Secondly, the extent<br />
of digital inclusion policy, which peer to peer perspective had put telecenters as<br />
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