Going Beyond Telecenters to Foster the Digital Inclusion of Older People in Brazil: Lessons Learned from a Rapid Ethnographical Study

Ferreira, Susan M.; Sayago, Sergio; Blat, Josep

doi:10.1080/02681102.2015.1091974

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“…[22] Empowerment being the power to act in new ways, is facilitated through either learning of new skills, or by adopting new technology. For example, teaching elderly people to use computers empowers them by better allowing them to communicate with relatives and friends [11]. Mobile technologies can be used to empower the youth by providing them reproductive health information [18].…”

Section: Empowerment In Hci and Ict4dmentioning

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Worker Empowerment in the Era of Sharing Economy Platforms in Global South

Keskinen

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2

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In this exploratory paper we discuss the relation between empowerment and global sharing economy in a Global Southern context. We distinguish two primary meanings of 'empowerment' namely,the liberation from oppression and the ability to act. We inspect working for sharing economies from both angles. A critical factor for assessing whether sharing economies are empowering for global South workers is the change it brings. If the platform work offers opportunities for formerly unemployed, the change is considered as empowering. However, it is possible, that these platform jobs instead replace the traditional, more protected employments, in which case the change is considered dis-empowering. We exemplify our arguments with a contextual inquiry into community-based tourism in a small village Tanzania. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; • Social and professional topics → Geographic characteristics.

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Section: Empowerment In Hci and Ict4dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Worker Empowerment in the Era of Sharing Economy Platforms in Global South

Keskinen

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2

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“…O mais importante não é possuir os dispositivos tecnológicos, e, sim, a capacidade das pessoas em usar essas tecnologias para se engajar em práticas sociais significativas. Nesse sentido, a inclusão digital representa uma nova via para que se possa fomentar os direitos cívicos, o exercício pleno da cidadania e o combate à pobreza, visando um maior e mais amplo desenvolvimento local (MARTINI, 2005;FERREIRA;SAYAGO;BLAT, 2016).…”

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Desenvolvimento De Projetos De Inclusão Digital Para Idosos

Raymundo

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Bernardo

2019

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O envelhecimento populacional, em uma sociedade cada vez mais digital faz com que seja necessário desenvolver estratégias para que os idosos possam se sentir incluídos de forma a poderem desfrutar destas novas soluções tecnológico-digitais no seu processo de envelhecimento. Para o efeito, é fundamental que sejam desenvolvidos e implementados projetos que visem à inclusão digital dos idosos e, consequentemente, a inclusão social desse segmento populacional. Neste sentido, deverão ser criadas todas as condições para que os idosos possam conhecer e aprender a utilizar os recursos digitais de forma a poderem utilizá-los em suas atividades diárias. Este artigo teórico pretende promover uma reflexão acerca das variáveis associadas à implementação e desenvolvimento de projetos/programas de inclusão digital para os idosos, nas seguintes pertentes: a) logística, ambiente físico e características e quantidade dos participantes; b) equipamentos tecnológicos e TIC; c) recursos analógicos. Da leitura do artigo ficará claro que um programa de formação em inclusão digital terá que ser formatado para uma população específica – os idosos – considerando-se um conjunto de características que implicam um cuidado especial e uma coerência que, para além de ser de cunho tecnológico-digital, tem que se precaver de variáveis de aspecto social e afetivo.

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“…Scholars have researched CTCs as spaces where people access ICTs in order to access information, develop skills, and use important services that promote (self-)development [19,20], health [21], literacy improvement [10,22], access to E-Government services [23], financial inclusion [24], tackling the digital age gap [25], and other utilitarian outcomes. Some practitioners have questioned the relevance of CTCs in the age of mobile internet, where smartphones and data plans are more and more accessible (see [15]).…”

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Going beyond the “T” in “CTC”: Social Practices as Care in Community Technology Centers

Nemer

2018

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Community technology center (CTC) is a term usually associated with facilities that provide free or affordable computer and internet access, and sometimes training, to people in underserved communities. Despite the large number of studies done on CTCs, the literature has focused primarily on the use of ICTs as the main, if not the only, activity in these centers. When it comes to addressing social concerns, the literature has often seen them as an outcome of ICT use. It does not highlight CTCs as an inherent and important social space that helps to tackle social issues. Thus, in this study, I present an ethnographic account of how residents of favelas (urban slums in Brazil)-who are from understudied and marginalized areas-used these centers beyond the "T" (technology) in order to fulfill some of their social needs. I highlight the social practices afforded by the CTCs that were beneficial to the underserved communities. By social practices, I focus exclusively on the acts of care performed by individuals in order to address self and community needs. I argue that CTCs go beyond the use of technology and provide marginalized people with a key social space, where they alleviate some of their social concerns, such as lack of proper education, violence, drug cartel activities, and other implications of being poor.

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Going Beyond Telecenters to Foster the Digital Inclusion of Older People in Brazil: Lessons Learned from a Rapid Ethnographical Study

Cited by 39 publications

References 35 publications

Worker Empowerment in the Era of Sharing Economy Platforms in Global South

Worker Empowerment in the Era of Sharing Economy Platforms in Global South

Desenvolvimento De Projetos De Inclusão Digital Para Idosos

Going beyond the “T” in “CTC”: Social Practices as Care in Community Technology Centers

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