Using IT Education to Reveal New Horizons - A Large Scale Case Study on Digital and Social Inclusion

Marcel Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira, Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Adrião Duarte Dória Neto, Pablo Javier Alsina, José Ivonildo Rego, Izabel Hazin, Jorge Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão

2013

Abstract

The development and the economical growth of a State in the sectors of Industry, Commerce (and e-Commerce), and services are directly influenced by the investments on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Emergent countries like Brazil have an extremely large deficit in qualified ICTs employees. Furthermore, despite being the 6th economy in the world, Brazil currently still presents a large number of citizens below the poverty line even after a considerable improvement in recent years. In 2006, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), developed the Digital Metropolis project, whose main objective is to provide means for the creation of a ICT Development Environment in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Currently, the project’s main supporting activity is the Technical Course on Information Technology. In this paper, we describe the activities involving this course, its results and difficulties so far, and the future challenges we aim to face in a very near future.

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Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira M., Cavalcanti Leite J., Duarte Dória Neto A., Javier Alsina P., Ivonildo Rego J., Hazin I. and Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão J. (2013). Using IT Education to Reveal New Horizons - A Large Scale Case Study on Digital and Social Inclusion . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 603-611. DOI: 10.5220/0004344606030611


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@conference{csedu13,
author={Marcel Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira and Jair Cavalcanti Leite and Adrião Duarte Dória Neto and Pablo Javier Alsina and José Ivonildo Rego and Izabel Hazin and Jorge Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão},
title={Using IT Education to Reveal New Horizons - A Large Scale Case Study on Digital and Social Inclusion},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={603-611},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004344606030611},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Using IT Education to Reveal New Horizons - A Large Scale Case Study on Digital and Social Inclusion
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira M.
AU - Cavalcanti Leite J.
AU - Duarte Dória Neto A.
AU - Javier Alsina P.
AU - Ivonildo Rego J.
AU - Hazin I.
AU - Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão J.
PY - 2013
SP - 603
EP - 611
DO - 10.5220/0004344606030611