Política Pública de Inclusão Digital: uma proposta de desenvolvimento local em Lagoa de Itaenga-PE

Abstract

This thesis aimed to analyse the impacts of the rural internet center of Lagoa do Itaenga as a new public space of digital communication, in a partnership with public institutions, private institutions and nongovernmental organizations that aim to accelerate the process of communication in search of human development. This digital space has been designed, developed and implemented at a moment in which civil society lives a broad process of globalization supported by new forms to administrate the state, including the changes in public policies focused on the democratization of communication. Studying the importance of public policies seeking to analyse the role of the state and civil society organizations allowed to define specific goals: to examine the relationship between social capital and the Internet, in order to identify how far these mechanisms promote communication in the process of local development and to identify the uses and appropriations that users of the rural internet centers of ASSIM are developing when using cyberspace. On the methodological track we signal this thesis as a case study, in which the following instruments were used for data collection: interviews, questionnaires, direct observations, field diary, documental analysis and photography. The results of this research allow to say that the current public policies of digital inclusion are in part making possible for some rural communities to insert themselves in a new communication media, which is essential in this contemporary period, since the information and knowledge society has as main tool the use of Internet. The impacts after the use of the Internet have helped some groups to strengthen their social capital and reshape their political strategies regarding social participation. It is pertinent to punctuate that the diversity of partnerships in social programs is essential to obtain better results in public policies of digital inclusion and social development.