Economia do conhecimento e capitalismo de vigilância: contribuições amazônicas para a inovação digital

Abstract

This work seeks to establish a connection between Surveillance Capitalism and Dependency Theory and the process of computerization and digitization of the biological collection of Herbário MPEG, with a view to showing how the massive process of capturing personal data through technological corporations called BigTechs through its computational platforms it has deepened both technological dependence and economic inequality between rich and poor countries. This situation is expected to worsen even further due to the intensification of the prey process of biological data on biodiversity with a focus on specimens from the Amazon Forest. It is a call for more scientists and researchers to take a more accurate look at this dynamic that has been consolidated through the so-called Knowledge Economy, which has relegated the role of mere users to science makers in so-called underdeveloped or developing countries. technologies coming from the big capitalist economic centers as well as data collectors to feed the scientific and technological industry of the so-called first world countries.