O conflito constitucional existente entre o direito de autor, direito cultural e acesso à informação

O conflito existente entre o direito do autor, direitos culturais e acesso à informação assolam inúmeros debates jurídicos no país. Todos esses são direitos com amparo constitucional que encontram na realidade social obstáculos para serem conciliados. O advento da internet permitiu que obras artísticas fossem distribuídas democraticamente ao redor do mundo, rompendo com a maneira tradicional de distribuir cultura e informação, antes proporcionadas, principalmente, pelo meio tradicional da compra. Faz-se necessário repensar esses institutos e como conciliá¬-los para beneficiar a coletividade.

Pessoas com deficiência visual e o acesso à informação

Expõe considerações a respeito dos portadores de necessidades especiais, das pessoas com deficiência, um enfoque parcial sobre as doenças degenerativas da visão, e uma atenção especial para as pessoas com deficiência visual, objeto de estudo da pesquisa desenvolvida. Estabelece um resgate da evolução dos métodos que possibilitaram a essas pessoas registrar e decodificar informações na forma escrita até o surgimento do Sistema Braille. Destaca ainda os suportes e as formas de registro da informação no mencionado sistema, e aponta nominalmente os novos recursos decorrentes do advento das novas tecnologias.

O argumento de inclusão enquanto política de acesso à universidade pública

There are a great number of evidences showing that education is extremely important in many economic and social dimensions. In Brazil, education is a right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution; however, in the Brazilian legislation the right to the three stages of basic education: Kindergarten, Elementary and High School is better promoted and supported than the right to education at College level. According to educational census data (INEP, 2009), 78% of all enrolments in College education are in private schools, while the reverse is found in High School: 84% of all matriculations are in public schools, which shows a contradiction in the admission into the universities. The Brazilian scenario presents that public universities receive mostly students who performed better and were prepared in elementary and high school education in private schools, while private universities attend students who received their basic education in public schools, which are characterized as low quality. These facts have led researchers to raise the possible determinants of student performance on standardized tests, such as the Brazilian Vestibular exam, to guide the development of policies aimed at equal access to College education. Seeking inspiration in North American models of affirmative action policies, some Brazilian public universities have suggested rate policies to enable and facilitate the entry of "minorities" (blacks, pardos1, natives, people of low income and public school students) to free College education. At the Federal University of the state Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), the first incentives for candidates from public schools emerged in 2006, being improved and widespread during the last 7 years. This study aimed to analyse and discuss the Argument of Inclution (AI) - the affirmative action policy that provides additional scoring for students from public schools. From an extensive database, the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique was used as well as a Quantile Regression considering as control the variables of personal, socioeconomic and educational characteristics of the candidates from the Brazilian Vestibular exam 2010 of the Federal University of the state Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The results demonstrate the importance of this incentive system, besides the magnitude of other variables

Transparência das informações públicas nos portais das instituições federais de educação profissional da região sul do Brasil

Considering the need of communication between public management and society and its citizens, in a way which is more effective and transparent, the aim of this research was to analyze the transparency of public information presented by the managers of the portals of southern Brazil’s Federal Institutes. It is a qualitative and quantitative research, applied as its purpose, and exploratory as its aim. In order to explain the issue from the theoretical frameworks published, it will be used as a procedure the bibliographic research and the further study field research in the six southern Brazil’s Federal Institutes. Therefore, the theoretical framework approaches aspects about public transparency, concepts of information and communication in the public sector, and it presents measurement indexes of public transparency. The data collection with the Institutes sought to measure – in the portals – the level of transparency of the information presented by the managers, applying a search tool which provided the transparency index of eleven categories of the researched items, besides verifying the presence of the required items by Access to Information Law. In the sequence, it sought to verify the Institutes managers’ perception of the aspects which composes the proposed theme, for the purpose of observing how the process of communication between public agencies and the citizen is happening. The main results obtained emphasize, in a general way, a low level of public information propagation, with a lower average of propagation to the information about social, environmental and economic responsibility, and a greater average to the information related to the institution’s general data – from its management structure to its ordinance. It was also observed that no institution which was researched fully comply with the demands of the Access of Information Law. The results about the manager perceptio demonstrate a tendency in publishing the produced information, however, elements such disorganization of information in the portals, lack of standardization of the virtual structure and type of language to use, and lack of procedures of popular participation and interaction in the portals are determiners to bring problems in the access and in the communication with the public. Besides, the short time of institutions’ creation and the short time of the managers assuming their functions must be considered as a reflex of the found results. Therewith, the present study highlighted the importance of Public Transparency theme and it reached a positive result to a scientific and social contribution.

Pessoas com deficiência visual e o acesso à informação

Expõe considerações a respeito dos portadores de necessidades especiais, das pessoas com deficiência, um enfoque parcial sobre as doenças degenerativas da visão, e uma atenção especial para as pessoas com deficiência visual, objeto de estudo da pesquisa desenvolvida. Estabelece um resgate da evolução dos métodos que possibilitaram a essas pessoas registrar e decodificar informações na forma escrita até o surgimento do Sistema Braille. Destaca ainda os suportes e as formas de registro da informação no mencionado sistema, e aponta nominalmente os novos recursos decorrentes do advento das novas tecnologias.