STS focus about the Information and Communication Technologies on the development of Angola

• Autor(a) principal: Patrocínio, Gilberto
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Orlando, Schimiguel, Juliano, Silveira, Ismar Frango
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática - REnCiMa
• DOI: 10.26843/rencima.v3i3.405
• Texto Completo: https://revistapos.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/rencima/article/view/405
• topic: Angola; Educação; TICs; Angola; Education; ITCs

This paper aims at developing a systematic analysis on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Distance Learning in the development of Angola. Currently Angola as one of the most important African countries, the protagonist of the African Union (AU), is in extensive development and rebuilding themselves socially, economically and politically. In the process, Education becomes essential and, together with a proposal to insert through the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), proceeds to the achievement of a future process where science and technology apply in favor of a society, a real action CTS. In this effort we analyzed the most sensitive aspects of the Angolan reality, trying to identify the main points that require dependence on imports in the ICT sector, were also exposed fundamental strategies and initiatives for the implementation of an ICT industry in Angola. It also presented the main center of the Angolan Network for Distance Learning (NDL) and its major partners. And as a proposed application, was taken into consideration the statement of partnership between Southern Cross University and the University Agostinho Neto (UAN) for Distance Education.