What is the objective of the ICT Culture research?
To produce indicators and statistics that allow representing and understanding the access, adoption, and appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICT) by Brazilian cultural facilities. It also aims to investigate the impacts of ICT on the internal work of institutions and their relationship with their audiences.
What is the importance of research?
Research contributes to the development of the Internet in Brazil and to the construction of public policies related to the use of technologies by Brazilian cultural equipment, aiming to expand their reach and promote access to culture.
Who supports the research?
The research is supported institutionally by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and governmental bodies such as the National Council of Archives (Conarq), the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), and the National System of Public Libraries (SNBP). The initiative is also supported by specialists linked to non-governmental organizations and important academic centers.
Who is the target audience of the research?
The interviews are conducted with managers of cultural facilities across the country, including archives, listed properties, libraries, cinemas, museums, cultural points, and theaters.
How is the research conducted?
The research is conducted by telephone through a structured questionnaire, developed to understand the profile of the institutions, their presence on the Internet, access to ICT, and the use of these technologies in their internal operational routine, in the relationship with their audiences, and in the formation of digital collections.
The interviews are conducted by researchers from Ipec, the research institute responsible for collecting the information.
What happens to the information provided to the interviewer?
The responses of each interviewee are grouped with those of other survey participants to build statistics for the entire country. Procedures are adopted to anonymize each respondent, meaning that specific information about each cultural equipment and the respondent and the institution they represent are never disclosed or identified.
The Ipec Intelligence in Research and Consulting, the company responsible for data collection, has the international ISO 20252 certification, which mandates the confidentiality of all survey respondents' data.
What is Cetic.br?
The Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) is responsible for producing indicators on the availability and use of the Internet in Brazil, which serve as a reference for the formulation of public policies in various sectors.
Cetic.br is a department of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), linked to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), and acts as a Regional Center under the auspices of UNESCO for Latin America and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.
More information:
To learn more about Cetic.br and its research, click here.
For more information about ICT Culture 2024, you can contact:
Cetic.br – Lúcia de Toledo França Bueno: (11) 5509-3537 Ext. 4082 or pesquisa@nic.br
Ipec - Ligia Rubega: (11) 3069 9460 / ligia.rubega@ipec-inteligencia.com.br
Paulo Vieira: (11) 3069-9452 / paulo.vieira@ipec-inteligencia.com.br
Cetic.br and Unesco
In 2012, Cetic.br became a UNESCO Category 2 Center, the first of its kind dedicated to the development of information and knowledge societies. The Center is linked to the Communication and Information (CI) Sector, one of UNESCO’s five areas of work. It contributes to achieving the organization’s strategic objectives by strengthening its efforts to monitor the building of information and knowledge societies. Cetic.br’s scope of action includes Latin America and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.
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