A POLÍTICA BRASILEIRA DE INCLUSÃO DIGITAL NO CAPITALISMO CONTEMPORÂNEO: o elo perdido do Programa Casa Brasil

Abstract

Evaluative research from Casa Brazil Program. Analysis of the foundations of political, ideological, economic, social, institutional and cultural order that conditioned the process of the formulation of the Brazilian digital inclusion policy and the dynamics of the Casa Brazil program implementation, having as empirical reference, as a way of illustration, the experience of Unit of Anjo da Guarda in São Luís, Maranhão. Therefore, we performed a critical approach of the Government action, in the current phase of neoliberalism as a way to explain the sustenance of the vaunted speech "Information Society" in the Brazilian scene. Furthermore, we emphasize how digital inclusion is understood from the fascination caused by the new Information and Communication Technologies that are manifested in a speech techno-boastful about the possibilities of social inclusion, particularly in peripheral countries, such as Brazil, and specifically Maranhão. We also discuss how the organic relationship between the government and capital, driven by neoliberal ideology, composed the structure that established the fundamentals of the Brazilian policy of digital inclusion. We noted that the origin of this policy in the current Brazilian situation resulted from the ideological action arising out of the Government and capital, influenced by the fetishism of the new Information and Communication Technologies in contemporary capitalism, presenting itself as a capitalist project adjustment of the Brazilian Government to the political pressures from developed countries and international organizations, whose main objective was to insert the country in the globalized world economy. It became necessary to introduce the concept of digital inclusion that theorists of the apologetic ideology support under that policy and Casa Brazil program, as well as presenting our own understanding, by advocating a conception of a digital inclusion whose ideology is really committed to the working class, as from a project of human emancipation. It was also analyzed the constituent elements of the program, giving deserved prominence to the terms: generation of employment and income, economic solidarity, sustainable development, access and production of information and knowledge, popularization of science and art, extending of citizenship and civil society action, demystifying the concept that each of these terms represents the context of the dominant ideology. We further identified, the mechanisms of participation and social control of Casa Brazil, which required emphasizing approaches from different authors and conceptual matrices about social control, participative management and management councils. We found that, in its process of implementation, the Casa Brazil program presented itself ineffective due to encountering obstacles that hindered the achievement of results. Furthermore, such proposal, as interesting and appropriate as possible at the micro level, had no such intention of breaking with the logic of the established order. We conclude thereby that, the Casa Brazil Program did not configure as a digital inclusion program, whose proposal was guided in the human emancipation of the working class, but rather the preservation and expansion of capitalism, given that their constituents supported the logic of capitalist exploitation, favoring the interests of the ruling class.