Download or read book The Internet in Brazil written by Peter T. Knight and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demi Getschko, Member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and Chairman Executive Committee of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). "This is the right book at the right time, when Internet governance is in the headlines. the political visions behind Brazil's governance system are very advanced and embody the rich diversity of our academic, political, technical, entrepreneurial, and civil society stakeholders. That diversity has allowed the Internet to flourish in our country. Peter Knight captures all these visions in a book that the reader will find both provocative and pleasurable to read." Michael Stanton, Director of Research and Development, National Education and Research Network (RNP). "This book provides a very informative description of how Brazilian governments and allied institutions have together built, and continue to extend, the communications infrastructure required for a modern knowledge-based society. the job is by no means complete, but the book shows examples of how future extensions can continue to be built to improve the result. Unsurprisingly, a common thread throughout the book is the emphasis on providing ubiquitous fiber optical infrastructure so that future expansion can reuse existing communications cables." Steve Goldstein, Former National Science Foundation Program Officer for International Internet Connections and former Member of the Board of ICANN. "In this short book, Dr. Knight, a former World Bank economist and manager now living in Brazil, moves from a meticulously detailed rendition of the development of networking in Brazil through to the adoption of Internet technology by the academic community. Then, he follows the path to commercialization and present day status and the very latest global policy implications for Internet governance (e.g., NET Mundial). A gift to Internet historians and policy wonks as well!" Nagy Hanna, Author, Advisor, Academic. Former senior advisor on e-transformation and chief strategist at the World Bank. "The Internet is central to realizing any eTransformation strategy. Harnessing this 21st century infrastructure is increasingly critical for the economic health and competitiveness of nations. Peter is a keen observer of the Internet's evolution, use, and governance in Brazil. This book is a timely and readable analysis that should help both external observers and Brazilians understand this important country's approach to the Internet." Vanda Scartezini, Former National Secretary for Information Technology Policy and twice former member of ICANN Board of Directors. "Extremely relevant for rescuing the memory of Internet's evolution in Brazil. the book provides an excellent opportunity for the youth of today and tomorrow understand the path that led to them this fantastic opportunity for personal and social development that is the Internet."
Download or read book Broadband In Brazil written by Peter Knight and published by Google Access. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has been a reality in Brazil for more than 20 years. Its growth has been encouraged by the government, by large telecom companies, and by small and medium Internet service providers, as well as by rapidly increasing demand. The achievements to date are clear, but almost half the population is still not participating in the digital world. Furthermore, the cost of broadband is still high and its quality should be improved so that it will be possible to take advantage of all the benefits it can bring, whether related to health, education, or even the exercise of political rights. It is necessary, therefore that the Brazilian Internet be fast, reliable, and accessible. This book brings together 23 specialists in various areas related to broadband, specialists who wanted to discuss Brazil’s public policies and regulations as well as the progress and challenges related to expanding access to broadband Internet service. The 16 chapters also address the evolution of the country’s broadband infrastructure, including experiences of entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships. This debate is fundamental for Brazil’s technological, economic and social progress.
Download or read book Internet Access in Brazil written by MarketLine and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Internet and Health in Brazil written by André Pereira Neto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil. After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, and online citizen participation. The second part is dedicated to internet health audiences by analyzing the cases of patients, the young, and the elderly seeking and sharing health information online, especially in virtual communities. The third part is dedicated to the challenges that the expansion of the internet in healthcare poses to all of us, such as the evaluation of the quality of health information available online and the prevention of the risks involved with online sales, cyberbullying, and consumption of prescription medicines. The fourth presents some innovative e-learning experiences carried out with different groups in Brazil, while the fifth part analyses some practical applications involving the Internet and health, including studies on M-Health, the Internet of things, serious games and the use of new information and communication technologies in health promotion. The last chapter analyses the future of healthcare in the Internet Age. The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders and others interested in better understanding the trends and the different challenges related to the social phenomenon of the internet in health.
Download or read book Internet Access Industry Profile Brazil written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Internet Development in Brazil written by Brazilian Network Information Center and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Internet Access at Home And or School on Students Academic Performance in Brazil written by Narine Badasyan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper examines the effects of Internet access at school and/or at home on students' academic performance in urban areas utilizing a Brazilian unique dataset collected by the governmental agency “Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira” (National Institute of Educational Research Anísio Teixeira) or INEP for years 2007 and 2009. Using the propensity scores matching methodology the paper assesses the impact of internet on standardized Portuguese and mathematics tests that students in all public schools take in the 8th grade while controlling for an extensive list of variables which includes various household assets, parental education and involvement with student activities, the school physical infrastructure, safety, electronic equipments and library as well as teachers' academic history, experience and pedagogical strategies. Following Lechner (2001) the multiple treatment case is examined constituting of four alternatives: students with no Internet access at home or at school, students with Internet access at home but not at school, students with Internet access at school but not at home, and students with Internet access at home and at school. The results suggest that Internet access at home considerably improves test scores of 8th graders. The results hold for both Portuguese and mathematics tests and for both years 2007 and 2009. On the other hand, the Internet access at school either does not improve the academic performance of students (as it is the case for Portuguese test scores) or the effect is of much smaller magnitude (as it is the case for mathematics test scores) in 2007. In 2009 the impact of Internet access only at school is positive and significant though still of smaller magnitude. This improvement is most likely related to the “Broadband in Schools” program initiated in 2008 with the goal of bringing computer and broadband access to all public urban elementary and middle schools by the end of 2010. It is expected that this program has also promoted the awareness of the importance of internet use for students' education and, thus, motivated its use in pedagogical activities. Overall, the findings offer interesting implications from policy perspective. In the past decade policymakers in Brazil as well as in many other countries have allocated substantial funds to increase Internet access at schools. The results in this paper along with previous research suggest that the efforts to increase Internet access at schools can result in much higher magnitude of improvement of students' academic performance if they are combined with policy initiatives to increase home Internet access and incorporate Internet based educational tools at school.
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Download or read book Media Cartographies of Broadband Access in Brazil written by Iago Bueno Bojczuk Camargo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC- 1) in 2017 materialized the Brazilian government's long-standing political desire to achieve national strategic communications. Representing one of the most expensive investments in the space and telecommunication sectors in 21st-century Brazil, the SGDC- 1 emerged in the public discourse not only as a high-capital and sophisticated artifact capable of fostering national pride but also as a savior of broadband Internet connectivity for Brazil's rural and remote schools. This thesis critically examines media cartographies and discourses surrounding the SGDC-1 and points out how Brazil's strategic agendas and modernization campaigns were channeled into connectivity initiatives in rural schools. By offering a humanistic approach to untangle the complex systems that enable the SGDC-1's operations throughout Brazil's territory, I unravel major points of contention in the conceptualization of rural schools as "dark spots of information" in government discourses. I then proceed to explore the government's use of the televisual as part of its strategy to frame what I call a "space-telecom propaganda." Drawing upon materials including government reports, popular press articles, datasets, court hearings, televisual texts, and satellite footprint maps, I demonstrate how the SGDC-1 functions not only as a high-technological artifact but also as a political tool interwoven with the government's efforts to shape how citizens engage with notions of the "global village" and "digital divide." Through a critical media studies approach, I describe how the satellite's sociotechnical relations reveal what remains largely obscure to Brazilian publics. From questions pertinent to militarization, governance, and public-private partnerships to issues of longterm strategies, sustainability, and potential infrastructural disruptions, I argue these issues deserve public scrutiny as the SGDC project might be at stake in the foreseeable future given the current political conditions. To mitigate those potential shortcomings, I suggest the creation of a National Internet Satellite Plan to undertake some of these questions and orient future policy frameworks that may rely on the SGDC's constellation for broadband-enabled inclusion, national integration, community development, and socioeconomic progress.
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Download or read book Democracy after the Internet Brazil between Facts Norms and Code written by Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book throws new light on the way in which the Internet impacts on democracy. Based on Jürgen Habermas’ discourse-theoretical reconstruction of democracy, it examines one of the world’s largest, most diverse but also most unequal democracies, Brazil, in terms of the broad social and legal effects the internet has had. Focusing on the Brazilian constitutional evolution, the book examines how the Internet might impact on the legitimacy of a democratic order and if, and how, it might yield opportunities for democratic empowerment. The book also assesses the ways in which law, as an institution and a system, reacts to the changes and challenges brought about by the Internet: the ways in which law may retain its strength as an integrative force, avoiding a ‘virtual’ legitimacy crisis.
Download or read book Universal Access Policies and Internet Access as a Fundamental Right written by Ivar Alberto Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for digital inclusion and the idea of universal access strongly informed the debates at the first World Summit for the Information Society back in 2003. But to say that such aspect of the information society has been the main preoccupation of the stakeholders all through the four Internet Governance Forums so far is arguably exaggerated. Digital inclusion has in fact been relegated to a secondary level of importance in the general worldwide internet governance debate. There are already two billion people surfing the web and most developed countries have very high levels of internet penetration. Even developing countries such as Brazil and China have reasonable and rising internet penetration levels. Even when discussing the so-called “digital divide”, we are no longer worried with internet access plain and simple but rather with broadband penetration. There's well-spread consensus among people that internet access is indispensable in our day-to-day lives and yet some take for granted the efforts needed to effectively guarantee it for people in developing countries. Even if we could “declare the war won” (COMPAINE, 2001) in rich nations, there's indeed a long way yet to go before poorer nations achieve reasonable levels of internet penetration coupled with information literacy in order to grant their citizens a ticket into the information society. The concept of a fundamental right to internet access and the role that governments of democratic constitutional states must play in fulfilling it, along with proper judicial enforcement of such fulfillment, is what concerns our research. It is therefore an investigation of the constitutional law perspective of digital inclusion.
Download or read book Democracy and Digital Technology Internet Governance and Social In Exclusion in Rio De Janeiro written by Jeffrey Omari and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation employs 18 months of ethnographic research (i.e., experienced-based social, cultural, and legal inquiry) to explore Brazil's new Internet Bill of Rights, the Marco Civil da Internet (MCI), and its impact on the poor and working class populations of Rio de Janeiro. Through its call for openness, promotion of Internet access as a civil right, and protection of net neutrality, the MCI seeks to advance democratic Internet governance in Brazil, a country known for its great social and economic inequality. Brazil has a population of approximately 210 million people and, as of 2016, roughly 95 million Brazilians lacked access to the Internet. This fact is relevant because Article 4 of the MCI promotes "the right of Internet access to all." By enacting the MCI, the Brazilian government has seemingly envisioned universal Internet access as a core feature of their attempt to overcome decades of societal inequalities and help achieve a more authentic democracy. As legislation, the MCI is a laudable model of democratic Internet governance. I argue, however, that the disjunctive nature of Brazil's democratic project reveals corresponding disjunctions in implementing the MCI's objectives. By examining the significance of Internet governance that attempts to advance civil rights through the promotion of Internet access, my work uses the Internet and digital technology as a lens to explore the meaning of democracy in the Brazilian context.
Download or read book Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries written by Anthi Katsirikou and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a valuable resource of research papers and applications presented at the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference QQML2009, on the methodological tools used in library and information science. It provides the reader with a better understanding and holistic view on the subject and contains a plethora of invaluable methodologies and applications to a variety of information and library science. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries will be suitable to students as a textbook, as well as to scientists and professionals.
Download or read book Qualitative And Quantitative Methods In Libraries Theory And Application Proceedings Of The International Conference On Qqml2009 written by Anthi Katsirikou and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a valuable resource of research papers and applications presented at the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference QQML2009, on the methodological tools used in library and information science. It provides the reader with a better understanding and holistic view on the subject and contains a plethora of invaluable methodologies and applications to a variety of information and library science. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries will be suitable to students as a textbook, as well as to scientists and professionals.
Download or read book Brazil Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP, Inc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Download or read book Brazil Telecom Monthly Newsletter written by Paul Polishuk, Editor and published by Information Gatekeepers Inc. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
