Análise comparada das políticas de banda larga da Argentina e do Brasil: conformação da agenda decisória e o papel do Estado

Abstract

The research presented in this dissertation focuses on the role of the State in building the Information Society from the comparative analysis of broadband policies established in Argentina and Brazil, between 2008 and 2010. For the realization of this analysis, the conception of the nature of the Latin American States - in their relations of structural and structuring dependence - is highlighted as well as the conception of the nature of the Internet as a technopolitical artifact - in its constructivist social dimension, according to the elaboration of a sociotechnical analysis of Arpanet (first packet switching network developed in the United States in the early 1960s) - providing padding for subsequent research (on the broadband policy content of the two countries analyzed) without ignoring that the conditions of the state apparatus and technology are indispensable for understanding the public policies that conform to the Latin American states. In the final stage of the research, the broadband public policy analysis and the comparative analysis of the selected cases (Argentina and Brazil), using the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) and the Most Similar Systems Design (MSSD) give methodological conditions to expose the actions taken by the states of the Latin American countries evaluated here, especially when the government agenda is being shaped, even before public policy has effectively been implemented, and the consonances and dissonances of these state actions, characterizing the role played by the state in the dissemination of access to information and communication technologies.