It presents the theoretical and methodological framework of the research Local Cultural Windows being implemented at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology with the sponsorship of the National Counsel for Scientific and Technological Development, which aims to stimulate, in a participative way, information actions to promote digital inclusion. The premises of the project - information as a transformation strength, the social responsibility of Information Science and its intrinsic relation to information technology - emerge in the proposal as the development of the competencies required for the production and communication of information in digital media, thus contributing to enable the participants to navigate between the local and the global cultures. With this project we aim to redeem and register the cultural memory of the community the research focus at and to contribute to enhance the Human Development Rates of the city under study.
Digital inclusion; Cultural identity; Information management; Social responsibility; Information science