Direct transfer program of Brazilian government's income, which since its creation in 2003 (Law No. 10.836 / 2004) benefited millions of families in poverty and extreme poverty throughout the country, paying US $ 50.00 per capita monthly. In 2014, 13.9 million families were helped by the Bolsa Familia Program (Ministry of Social Development, 2015 AU51: The in-text citation "Ministry of Social Development, 2015" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Brazil 4D: An Experience of Interactive Content Production for Free-to-Air Digital Television
Cosette Castro (University of Brasilia, Brazil) and Cristiana Freitas (Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch013
Abstract
In this chapter, we will debate about the free-to-air model of interactive digital television (iTVD) developed in Brazil, about its characteristics, and the interactive digital audiovisual content produced for this type of television. In the Introduction, we reflect about different aspects of the social and economic uneven development of Latin America and Caribean, especially in Brazil. We also discuss about the concepts of innovation, strategic development, and how we believe that it is necessary to include communication, education and culture inside the debates about innovation and technology. After this, we show the Brazilian model of free-to-air digital television, a unique model in the world, because of its middleware Ginga, a Brazilian technology developed in open source, that permits free interactivity, mobility, interoperability, multiprogramming, accessibility and portability for everyone. In the third part, we focus on the BRAZIL 4D Project, developed by Communications Company Brazil (EBC), a public company, using free-to-air interactive digital public television and telecommunications to offer information, fiction, and public services to low-income population through remote control. This Project contributes to the social and digital inclusion of Brazilian people without access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), about 14.5 million of families or 60 million of low-income people.