Políticas públicas para a comunicação na Amazônia: o caso do Programa NavegaPará

Abstract

The NavegaPará Program, developed by the state government of Pará since 2007, set in a public policy aimed at ensuring access to the Internet for free in the municipalities of Pará, through a wide network of own fiber optical. Looking beyond the basic infrastructure, seeking to understand the NavegaPará above all as a communication policy, based on the discussion of communication, information and lack of communication. About Political Economy of Communication, seeking to understand the context and how the program's methodology is applied in three distinct infocenter in the capital Belém, from the analysis of their political and social conditions, material, institutional, methodological and ideological . The method of approach is inductive qualitative with applying semi-structured interviews of three groups of social agents belonging to the dynamics. The research methodology found in the infocenter not standard, contributing to the cultural issue of communication was deprecated in relation to the aspect of technicality and access to computers to the Internet.