Debate on cultural policies marks the launch of the publication TIC Cultura 2016

The IX International Seminar on Cultural Policies dedicated the first day of activities to the presentation and discussion of the survey by Cetic.br

The IX International Seminar on Cultural Policies dedicated its first day of activities, last Tuesday (15), to the launch of the publication TIC Cultura 2016, conducted by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) through the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). The event, held in partnership with the Rui Barbosa House Foundation (FCRB), the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Policies and Management - FCRB, and the Itaú Cultural Observatory, included the participation of researchers, managers, and other stakeholders to discuss the indicators of the study and issues related to cultural policies and digital technologies.

During the opening of the event, Marta de Senna, president of the Rui Barbosa House Foundation, reinforced the indispensable nature of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the development of intellectual work and its dissemination. Adauto Soares, coordinator of Communication and Information at UNESCO in Brazil, emphasized that the culture sector needs data and historical series on the use of ICT, highlighting that Cetic.br is a category II center of UNESCO and praising the legacy of CGI.br and NIC.br for the Internet in Brazil.

Demi Getschko, CEO of NIC.br, highlighted the internationally comparable methodology of the surveys produced by Cetic.br, as well as its contribution to the development of public policies. “We are a thermometer, a benchmark, a data generator, and a scenario mapper. With the work developed by Cetic.br, we are providing solid indicators and data to the community, reflecting the reality of each sector and serving to support the decisions of public managers,” he stated.

TIC Cultura 2016

Indicators on the ICT infrastructure and the use of these technologies in Brazilian cultural facilities - including archives, listed heritage sites, libraries, cinemas, museums, cultural centers, and theaters - were presented at the Seminar by the coordinator of the TIC Cultura survey, Luciana Lima. “How can these spaces be access points to the Internet? To what extent do cultural institutions contribute to digital inclusion? The indicators on the availability of Wi-Fi are below 50% in all types of cultural facilities, showing that this tool is still little diffused,” she highlighted.

The study also revealed that the use of online platforms (websites and social networks) by Brazilian cultural facilities is more focused on disseminating news and activities of institutions rather than spreading cultural content on the Internet. TIC Cultura 2016 showed, for example, the significant presence of collections in all categories of cultural facilities, highlighting the digitization of materials among archives (74%), cultural points (63%), and museums (58%). However, even among those with digitized collections, most make it available to the public at the institution itself and not online.

Conducted between November 2016 and April 2017, TIC Cultura interviewed 2,389 cultural facilities and presents indicators on the perception of contributions and challenges for the use of computers and the Internet for internal management and contact with the institution's audiences. The publication, which gathers data, tables, analyses, and expert articles, is available for download for free. The survey is also available in full on the Cetic.br website.

Debate

“How to react to the scenario presented by the survey?” Debate moderator, Fabio Senne, research coordinator at Cetic.br, stimulated the discussion from this questioning. Alessandra Garcia (Ibram) brought the perspective of museums, explaining how the database production of the national museum registry occurs. She commented that the TIC Cultura data show that Internet access is not universalized in these institutions, and there is also a lack of computers, which helps justify a series of actions for museums. She also stressed the importance of them being networked to solve problems through contact with peers.

“In the scope of public actors, it is fundamental to appropriate surveys like TIC Cultura to qualify decision-making. There lies the great difficulty. We are not taking full advantage of the data for defining a strategic plan,” pointed out Claudinéli Moreira Ramos (SECULT/SP). Computerization and training for the use of ICT should be considered priorities, according to the specialist, who also highlighted the use of ICT to increase participation in cultural management, whether through public consultations or other online tools.

Data producers, Leonardo Athias (IBGE) and Luana Rufino (Ancine) presented complementary information to the TIC Cultura data. Athias highlighted that the basic municipal information survey (MUNIC) by IBGE, answered by municipalities since 1999, includes a block on the existence of cultural facilities and communication means in Brazilian municipalities. “The culture supplement of MUNIC/ESTADIC 2018 is currently in the field, with results expected to be released in May or June 2019,” he informed. Rufino, in turn, detailed the cinema perspective from data obtained by Ancine through regulatory obligation, presenting the scenario of digitization of the exhibitor park as fundamental for the universalization of ICT among these facilities.

Check the full discussions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBc_dmZIepM.

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