A incorporação das tecnologias da informação e comunicação na política de assistência social brasileira

Abstract

This paper analyzes the insertion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Social Welfare policy in Brazil, with emphasis on CadÚnico, as a, technological tool used in the management of this policy. The main objective is to analyze how the insertion of ICT in the Social Welfare policy takes place, analyzing how the implementation of the CadÚnico Application impacts the access to social rights for the population in a situation of social vulnerability. To this end, bibliographic and documentary research was carried out. In the bibliographic studies, we sought to understand the articulation between Work and Technology based on the analyses carried out in the works of Karl Marx and Álvaro Vieira Pinto. In the documentary research, we analyzed how the digitalization of social policies has been developing in the Brazilian reality, based on the documents of the State Management Reform process. And we systematized documents from the (former) Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS), regarding the configurations of the Brazilian Social Welfare policy based on the implementation of information systems. We emphasize the analysis of CadÚnico as a technological tool used in the management of this policy. In this sense, we consider that this work contributes to the debate on Information and Communication Technologies in social policies, especially how the incorporation into this policy takes place, which has the discourse of guaranteeing and ensuring the effectiveness of social rights for populations considered more vulnerable.