Citizenship through data sharing in the Amazon region

Efforts to promote digital, social and environmental inclusions the Central Amazon Region are being made. The Federal Government and some universities plan to induce around 1,400 school teachers and their students to grow as citizens, portraying through their own and unbiased perception the environment from which they emerged. The Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) developed a web based system through which school students are able to upload to Internet, after screening procedures, all kinds of data (textual, pictures, videos, files) of their choice, using low cost equipments (GPS, digital cameras and notebooks) and simple system interfaces. During 2010, a pilot project has been applied to 48 high schools of the Santarem Municipality, Pará State, in the Central Amazon Region. The basic structure, procedures and some already obtained results are made available in the present paper, documenting one more example of data processing technology promoting citizenship in an emblematic region of Brazil.