digital divide : causes and effects in contemporary brazilian society

Digital Divide: causes and effects

in contemporary Brazilian societyDenize Correa Araujo, Brazil

IAMCR Presentation 2008

-clip of the Brazilian feature film Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (Sérgio Bianchi)

DEPARTURE POINT

Quanto vale ou é por quilo?

- analyze the complexity of digital technology implementation, as well as its power as a tool to lower class inclusion in the globalized Brazilian contemporary scenario

PROPOSAL

- there are too many social, political and cultural implications that may jeopardize digital inclusion

HYPOTHESIS I

- the ONGs (private organizations that intend to take profit instead of helping needed people)

POLITICAL SCENE

- children and teenagers who have waited for a long time want to try the so-expected computers but they are computer illiterate and finish up by breaking the old machines

CULTURAL SCENE

- teachers and social assistants can perceive the problems in both parts but cannot do much to solve them because they themselves lack skills

SOCIAL SCENE

- digital inclusion is easier to be accomplished than social inclusion, which demands more requirements, such as high education, financial possibilities and social behavior (dressing well, club membership, family power)

HYPOTHESIS II

- two projects in my hometown, Curitiba, capital of Paraná: the “Citizenship Streets” and the “Knowledge Lighthouses”

HAPPY END

“Knowledge Lighthouses”

“Citizenship Streets”

Denize Correa Araujo

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