Research report on the partial results of the project Local Culture Windows: Quissamã, RJ. that is being carried on by Ibict's Research Group on Information and Social Inclusion, sponsored by he National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. It details and discusses the theoretical and methodological approaches used and, at the same time, stresses the social responsability of Information Science in Brazil. The project is being developed jointly with the Municipal Secretariat of Education of Quissamã. It has as its field of research the Municipal School Maria Ilka, in the district/neighbohood of Santa Catarina. Besides the scientific report, that encompasses a proposal of a methodology for digital inclusion of communities, it is also expected as a result the development of competencies in information by the local partners. It is also particularly expected that the project contributes to promote the recovery and to the recording/registration of thr cultural memory of the neighborhood of Santa Catarina.
Digital inclusion; Cultural identity; Information management; Social responsibility; Information science