Economia solidária e tecnologia social: a apropriação pelos trabalhadores de empreendimentos econômicos solidários do Cirandas.net

Abstract

This study proposes to understand how the appropriation of the workers of Solidarity Economy Enterprises occurred by Cirandas.net. The Solidarity Economy is a proposal of development antagonistic to the capitalist model for being based on the principles of solidarity, cooperation, self-management, distribution of wealth and collective work. In addition, this movement believes in emancipatory education, which proposes changes in the ways of learning, teaching, producing, consuming, preserving the environment and disseminating other conceptions of social relations. Social Technology (TS), reinforces the criticism of the simple transfer of technology to society, since it defends that the technologies are produced collectively and that they include real demands. And, it suggests an emancipatory methodology where the individuals served by the technology pass from mere users to the people who contribute in its elaboration and maintenance under democratic and participatory principles as a fundamental factor of the TS process. In dealing with technology, it finds the online platform of Cirandas.net in which it was developed with the Solidarity Economy movement in Brazil, and aims to create a national network of Economic Solidarity Projects, an online space to market and promote dialogues with society and among the subjects that make up the Solidary Economy. This qualitative research was developed at the first moment to carry out a survey of scientific articles that involved Solidary Economy and Social Technology in order to verify the level of approximation between the two themes. Subsequently, the bibliographic review was elaborated on the above topics. As an approximation of the field, 17 interviews were conducted based on a semi-structured online script and through the skype / whatsapp applications. Separated into two groups, namely: 15 Solidarity Economic Development workers who were selected at Cirandas.net, and two technical managers. Descriptive-qualitative procedures were used to analyze the data. The results showed that Cirandas.net is a platform developed from the demand of the Solidarity Economy movement, and counted with the participation of the members of the Brazilian Forum of Solidary Economy in its elaboration. On the other hand, the workers in the Solidarity Economy groups of this study took advantage of Cirandas.net's technology to market and publicize their products / services, used it as an aid tool in the organization of collective purchasing processes, to to know EES from other regions of the country, because it would be difficult to meet in person and reported that participation in Cirandas.net also contributed to some members of Solidarity Economic Developments learn to use the internet and the computer.