Information and Communication Technologies, the other bias of sustainability: a look at the rural county of Saudade do Iguaçu (PR)
Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, o outro viés da sustentabilidade: um olhar para o rural do município de Saudade do Iguaçu (PR)
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v27n1-9Abstract
The sustainable development advocates the equity of social, environmental and economic dimensions, since development is a complex and multidimensional process. The social elements have a great importance for the achievment of sustainability, since we live in a society based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). They bring technologies to the social scene at a fast pace, contributing to the construction of an agile and effective comunication. Technology and Access to comunication are rights of the population and the absence of this availability result in challenges and fights to guarantee the Access to ICTs. In this sense, the present paper aims to understand the perception of family farmers of the county of Saudade do Iguaçu, Paraná, regarding the quality and Access of the ICTs, as well as the importance of these services in social reproduction and in the sustainable rural development. The chosen methodology was the qualitative, through twenty nine semi-structured interviews with the farmers. As conclusion, we sugered that the rural of Saudade do Iguaçu still presents difficulties to Access the ICTs, on telephony and internet signal. However, the reality of that county demonstrated the direct importance of ICTs for the rural youth, in its role to help the parents to use the ICTs and as strategy to the permanence and reproduction of family agriculture. Thinking the sustainable rural development require to recognize social elements and accept that the ICTs are necessary tools for sustainability. So, ICTs quality access in the rural áreas is important to strategies and public policies to the expansion of digital signal and actions to the digital inclusion for adults and aged.
Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies; family agriculture; sustainable rural development; Access; social sustainability.
LORA, Mayza Izadora; GODOY, Cristiane Maria Tonetto; GODOY, Wilson Itamar; MARINI, Marcos Junior. Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, o outro viés da sustentabilidade: um olhar para o rural do município de Saudade do Iguaçu (PR). Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 1, p. 185-206, fev. 2019
Submitted in july 2018.
Accepted in january 2019.
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