Avaliação de programas de inclusão digital: os cursos de formação de monitores do Acessa São Paulo e o Centro Rural de Inclusão Digital

Abstract

The purpose is to discuss, in an ethnographic evaluation perspective, the training of two monitors taking part in digital inclusion programs in two Brazilian states: Sao Paulo and Ceará. The training courses for monitors at Acessa SP Program and at Rural Center for Digital Inclusion (CRID) will be presented , described and analyzed. Pieces of information about CRID were collected in a study conducted by the Research Laboratory of Multimedia from Education Faculty (FACED) at Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The results using data analysis have proved that the methodology developed by the creators of CRID focused on the inclusion of the community in the laboratory, thus associating technology and local needs. This showed that technological tools can be important elements to the promotion of collective development; this was not the case at Accessa SP, where investment in the training of monitors was not a priority, which is explained by the diversity of sites where they were implanted. As a result, it was difficult to prepare projects to meet the demands of communities.