Digital inclusion and local development

This article aims to analyze and evaluate social gains with the use of information and communication technologies, mainly the internet, in communitarian Telecenters, as a tool for local development. It also tries to identify local development tendencies after the enlargement of TICs practice in a co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Queiroz Santos , Caroline, Pereira Cardoso, Ana Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS)
Repositorio:Transinformação (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/6217
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/transinfo/article/view/6217
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:inclusão digital
desenvolvimento local
telecentros
digital inclusion
local development
telecenters
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Sumario:This article aims to analyze and evaluate social gains with the use of information and communication technologies, mainly the internet, in communitarian Telecenters, as a tool for local development. It also tries to identify local development tendencies after the enlargement of TICs practice in a community characterized by extreme poverty The experience of Cidadão.NET Project (Citizen.NET) - a government initiative carried out in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with the purpose of aiding social development by means of access to information and communication’s technologies and communitarian involvement is described.