Flaviopédia Português
Brazil without Queues

Internet as infrastructure

connection is what gives access to everything

Proposes guaranteeing internet connection packages, with priority for women reached by Brazil for Women, and bringing connectivity to schools, rural areas and border regions with low coverage.

In the program: [p. 24] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

The internet is the infrastructure of prosperity in the 21st century. It is through it that people book an appointment, study for a new profession, look for a job, open a business and call for help. A Brazilian without a connection is left out of all of this, no matter how many services the government digitizes. Treating the internet as infrastructure means treating it the way a road or a power grid is treated: it is not a luxury, it is what allows everything else to work. We will guarantee connection packages so that no Brazilian is kept from studying, training, looking for a job, starting a business or asking for help for lack of internet, with priority for the women reached by Brazil for Women. And we will bring connectivity to low-coverage localities, prioritizing schools, rural areas and border regions, continuing the work that, under the Bolsonaro government, had already connected more than 11 million people through the installation of more than 21,000 digital inclusion points by the Wi-Fi Brasil Program. Digitizing without connecting is excluding. No digital service fulfills its purpose for those who are off the network, and that is why connection comes before everything else in this chapter. [p. 24]

In plain language

  • The text treats the internet as infrastructure, comparable to a road or a power grid, and states that those without a connection are left out of digital services.
  • The program proposes guaranteeing connection packages so that no one is kept from studying, training, looking for a job, starting a business or asking for help because they have no internet.
  • It provides for priority in these packages for the women reached by Brazil for Women.
  • It proposes bringing connectivity to low-coverage localities, with priority for schools, rural areas and border regions.
  • The text cites the Wi-Fi Brasil Program, which, according to the document, connected more than 11 million people through more than 21,000 digital inclusion points, and provides for continuing that work.

What is not in the program

  • It does not define the content of the connection packages or the criteria for receiving them.
  • It presents no numerical targets for new connections or localities served.
  • It does not state who would carry out the expansion of connectivity.
  • It gives no timeline, cost or funding source.