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%T LAN House Implementation and Sustainability in Brazil: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective
%+ Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration [Rio de Janeiro]
%A Soares, Carla, Monteiro
%A Joia, Luiz, Antonio
%Z Part 3: Policy and Stakeholders
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 13th International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV)
%C Dublin, Ireland
%Y Marijn Janssen
%Y Hans Jochen Scholl
%Y Maria A. Wimmer
%Y Frank Bannister
%I Springer
%3 Electronic Government
%V LNCS-8653
%P 206-217
%8 2014-09-01
%D 2014
%R 10.1007/978-3-662-44426-9_17
%K LAN House
%K Actor-Network Theory
%K Digital Inclusion
%K Digital Exclusion
%K Brazil
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesConference papers
%X LAN Houses have featured as key locations for thousands of Brazilians who otherwise have no access to the Internet. Thus, the scope of this study is to investigate the implementation and sustainability trajectory of a LAN House from an Actor-Network Theory perspective. In order to achieve this, single case study methodology was adopted to address the implementation and sustainability of a LAN House in Jardim Catarina, city of São Gonçalo in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The result of this investigation supports the importance of government programs and actions as key actors to implement and sustain these endeavors. Lastly, it becomes clear that a LAN House is not actually a digital inclusion agent, despite its relevance to regions with lower rates of income, since the owner performs the role of “digital broker,” whereby most of LAN House users are denied full digital inclusion.
%G English
%Z TC 8
%Z WG 8.5
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01401742/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01401742/file/978-3-662-44426-9_17_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01401742
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01401742
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