DESENVOLVIMENTO E QUESTÃO AGRÁRIA: UMA ANÁLISE DA EXCLUSÃO DIGITAL DO CAMPESINATO

Abstract

The work developed and materialized in this essay seeks to think over about The Communication and Information Technologies (CITs) as an element in the development of the agrarian issue in the region of Pontal do Paranapanema. There are at least four points that make this analysis relevant: the important role played by the CITs in the business area; the low development presented by this region; the historical exclusion process the peasantry goes through and the impact of CITs in the peasantry and regional development. We sought to test the hypothesis that the peasantry goes through a digital exclusion process, which involves the denial of opportunity of access to the means and tools used to build, preserve and share knowledge important to the expansion of freedom, opportunities and autonomy needed to ensure its historic role, endangering the sustainability of Settlement Projects (STs) of Agrarian Reform. In the development of the thesis a qualitative-quantitative character approach was carried out through a theoretical study of the literature, and its applied aspects, was made documentary with the use of extensive direct observation technique. To establish the geographical limits of the studied area we used the Hydric Resources Management Unit (HRMU) in number 22. This field work enabled contact with the peasantry for systematic observation and capture information about their reality. The data was registered, consolidated and the information obtained give basis to the hypothesis that the peasantry goes through a digital exclusion process. It identified that the peasantry has no infrastructure, equipment and/or the knowledge needed to use this technologies in an adequate way. The infrastructure elements, equipment and knowledge present themselves isolated or together. This exclusion process is reinforced by the low efficiency of the existent Public Policies to promote the digital inclusion of the rural communities, and the rivalry and lack of political will. The digital exclusion has contributed to increase the isolation and subordination of the peasantry to the capital. This research is registered in Plataforma Brasil and CCPQ under the protocol CAAE 36833214.5.0000.5515.