Digital Inclusion and Public Policies in Brazil

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Author(s): Drica Guzzi (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brasilina Passarelli (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)and Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch009

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Socio-Economic Development

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This chapter intends to discuss the development of public policies and new participation mechanisms that concern digital inclusion and education in Brazil. Since 2000, several changes have been done in this area to better comprehend the digital era phenomenon and how it affects all the Brazilian people. This study presents comparison between the brazilian regions, once the Southeast and the South are very engaged to the digital era, while the North, Northeast and Mid-West still face problems with access issues.

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