Política de desenvolvimento territorial brasileira e tecnologia social: interfaces e conexões

Abstract

Faced with the challenge of promoting territorial development in a country as large as Brazil, Social Technologies (ST) have presented themselves as an innovative alternative capable of promoting national development and meeting local demands. This is possible through the creation of a National Territorial Development Policy based on the principles of Social Management. In view of this discussion, the present study aimed to analyze how Social Technologies are part of the Brazilian Territorial Development Policy. In order to reach this objective, a bibliographical survey was carried out related to territorial development, social technologies and the public policies associated to these areas. The relationship between Social Technologies and Social Management was also studied, and it was conducted research with scholars and the analysis of materials published in Brazil about what has been developed in terms of ST. The results showed that the incidence of the Social Management principles within the ST initiatives developed in the country is high, proving that the Social Technologies can be used as tools for the construction of a national policy that leads to the development of the territories. In addition, the insertion of ST into Brazil's territorial development policy is achieved by complying with the basic principles of Social Management, the main pillar of sustainability of this policy, acting the ST as a complement to Social Management and Social Management as a complement to the former.