Entre o acesso, a alfabetização digital e a apropriação das TICs: uma análise sobre o enfoque do governo federal no desenho de políticas públicas de inclusão digital

Abstract

This dissertation focused on studies related to digital inclusion, particularly on those related to digital inclusion public policies considered as key by the Brazilian federal government. In this regard, we sought to identify, through an inferential process, whether the focus of these public policies lies in the understanding of digital inclusion as access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), digital literacy, or the appropriation of ICTs. To address this research problem, we adopted an exploratory approach, grounded in the rules of inference developed by Lee Epstein and Gary King, conducting a documentary analysis of six public policies recognized by the federal government as the main digital inclusion policies. In addition to analyzing the aforementioned public policies, this work aimed to present Internet community networks as a vector of digital inclusion through technology appropriation, also highlighting some of the regulatory challenges faced by these community networks. In conclusion, the research identified that, predominantly, digital inclusion public policies developed by the Brazilian federal government have as their main objective the promotion of access to ICTs, particularly the Internet. Furthermore, a lack of coordination and dialogue among the analyzed digital inclusion public policies was identified, which has the potential to hinder the realization of their primary objective: digital inclusion.