Uso e aplicação de ferramentas de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) em projeto de conservação de tartarugas marinhas no estado do Ceará

Abstract

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) bring many possibilities for its application. Websites, social networks and mobile applications gain space helping to optimize work and time, radically changing everyday life in recent decades. Among all seven species of sea turtles that inhabit the world, five of them occur in Brazil and are threatened to extinction. The general objective of this work was to evaluate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in the development of Interpesca Project (DEP/UFC) activities. Information about the Interpesca Project and the Sea Turtles were obtained to support the ICT tools created. For the development of the ICT tools, the following software were used: Wix (website creation), Facebook and Instagram (social networks), Kodular (smartphone application). Five videos were recorded regarding themes involving characteristics of sea turtles and the Interpesca Project. To analyze the access data, the following tools were used: Wix Manage, Meta Business Suite, Google Play Console and Instagram Insingts. As a result, a website with five pages was builted: homepage; who we are; sea turtles; collection and contact. Also, a Facebook page and an Instagram profile both with the username “@projetointerpescaufc” were created. The application for Android smartphones called “Tartarugando” was developed and published on the Google Play Store, containing seven screens distributed as: (1) home screen, (2) sea turtles, (3) species differentiation, (4) tide tables, (5) solar and lunar calendar, (6) Interpesca Project, (7) occurrence record of sea turtles. The educational videos recorded comprised the following themes: (I) Interpesca Project, (II) how to identify a turtle species, (III) difference between turtles and both water and land tortoises, (IV) life cycle and (V) feeding. All the tools had a high number of hits, with emphasis on social networks both in this requirement and in interactions. The ICT created tools and analyzed in this work have been widely used, carrying information and helping sea turtle conservation