Diagnosis analysis, democracy and digital inclusion

Authors

  • Danilo Rothberg Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos - SP, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v5i1.292

Keywords:

Democracy, Inclusion, Information for Diagnosis Analysis, Internet, Learning

Abstract

From the point of view of the cognitive and informational inclusion, information should have some present certain characteristics in order to serve the deepening of democracy. The informational environment of a democracy should confront dogmatic belief systems and support diagnosis analysis of tradeoffs among effects of public policies, which should be framed in their aspects of expected benefits and necessary complements, with data on antecedents, alternatives, challenges, demands, limits, possible consequences, time of delivery, implementation costs etc. There is empirical evidence to support the notion that the internet can be an efficient means for the expression of frames of information for.


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Published

29/04/2009

Issue

Section

Digital Inclusion: for What and for Whom?