The opposite route to a global digital inclusionary agenda by Law and regulation: schisms of a neglected project in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Polido, Fabricio Bertini Pasquot
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Políticos (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://pos.direito.ufmg.br/rbep/index.php/rbep/article/view/688

INTRODUCTION: The article explores the interactions between normative digital inclusion policies, digital transformation and the opportunities that still exist in the field of inclusive digital practices for Brazil in the Global Digital Agenda. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the article is to examine the relationships between digital policies, social and economic inclusion, and the interfaces with the Brazilian Digital Transformation Strategy and its inconsistencies. METHODOLOGY: The article is based on the theoretical-investigative method involving internet and digital inclusion policies from the 2000s in Brazil, and comparative method applied to the content of the Digital Transformation Strategy devices and guides. The potential collision of the Strategy with policy formulations guided by the multidimensional approach of digitally inclusive practices on a global scale is observed. CONCLUSIONS: The main conclusions of the paper are as follows: (i) a multidimensional approach to internet and digital inclusion policies allows contesting policies merely anchored on corporate interests and founded on the expansion of digital markets without digital literacy counterparts; (ii) the concrete manifestations of digital inequality in the Global South and the diversity of values and actors should compose the concerns of a 'sustainable global digital agenda'; and (iii) the necessary convergence between institutional legal design, legal experiments on digital inclusion, effectiveness of the right to access the internet and measures to address digital inequalities.