The Politics of Internet Regulation in Brazil : dynamics, factors, and actors in broadband policy

In May 2010, Brazil joined the roll of nations with a National Broadband Plan. The Decree nº 7,175/2010 had implemented a program that aimed to offer 30 million permanent broadband accesses until 2014 and established its main goals, such as accelerating economic and social development, promoting digital inclusion, reducing social and regional inequalities, promoting a generation of employment and income, and expanding electronic government services. However, the broadband access in Brazil is limited, expensive, and centralized in the main urban centres. Despite the fast growth in the past years due to mobile internet access, the market is still concentrated in the local incumbent operators that currently provide mobile services, landline services and Paid-TV services, resulting in a high level of market verticalization. The following dissertation investigates the constraint of broadband access development, the dynamics, the actors, and the factors that have delayed the roll-out of broadband services in Brazil. The study also promotes reflections about the challenge posed by the media, by costumers associations and by public opinion as critical observers of the policy making process. This research examines on the political influence towards regulation to determine the way policy will benefit interest groups. Many interviews have been conducted in order to understand the forces which have been acting in the telecommunications in Brazil after privatization, in 1998. This study aims to provide a better understanding of telecommunications regulatory process in Brazil, in order to help the country finding an adequate policy which can lead to the implementation of a broadband roll-out. The universal broadband access is the only way to benefit the whole society in Brazil with a satisfactory level of education and create more jobs and economic development regarding the plenty use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Mudanças econômicas e modelos de governação : democratização e desenvolvimento

Analisa-se que os mercados não existiriam sem instituições, que as economias se organizaram segundo várias modalidades de governação, originando contextos institucionais relevantes para a interpretação dos contextos econômicos das nações. A partir dessa premissa, desenvolve-se a suposição de que há três domínios principais que formam a base organizacional em que assentam as dinâmicas positivas do capitalismo – as relações industriais, os processos de inclusão pelo trabalho e pela aprendizagem e as instituições. Por fim, pode-se concluir que as instituições da esfera legislativa, especialmente as vinculadas ao desenvolvimento e à democracia, constituem elementos essenciais para a organização qualificada da economia, influenciando as capacidades gerais de uma sociedade.

Princípios de economia política, para servir de introducção à tentativa economica do author dos Princípios de direito mercantil

Cayru expõe e defende as teorias de Adam Smith, especialmente as expostas no Wealth of Nations, publicado em 1776.