This article refers to the main actions of the Ministry of Communications as far as the services of telecommunications is concerned. The Telecommunity Program is presented as an important instrument in preparing the Brazilian society for the digital era. The Program embraces the areas of education, health, libraries and public safeguard. It promotes the connectivity of remote and frontier areas of strategic concerns, and, espacially, propitiates the access of handcaps to the new technologies.
Information universalization; Telecommunications; Telecommunity; Education; Health; Library; Public safeguard; Handcaps