By Juliana Ravelli

The Diario do Grande ABC

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The revolution that computers and the web brought to mankind is not accessed by most people. To circumvent this scenario, poor communities are making their own digital inclusion, mainly through Internet cafes.

A search of CGI (Internet Steering Committee in Brazil), shows that in 2008, 47% of urban population accessed the Internet for cyber cafe . In rural areas, the number is more significant, 58%. This phenomenon is more prevalent in low-income families and less educated.

"As the cost of Internet access is high, the Internet cafes are viable options," says the manager of cetic.br (Center for Research on Information Technology and Communication), Alexandre Barbosa.

The phenomenon, according to a professor at USP (Universidade de São Paulo) Gilson Schwartz, leader of the research group Knowledge City CTR / ECA (Department of Film, Radio and TV School of Communication and Arts) began to emerge in the last four years and was motivated by two main factors: the ease of credit to purchase computers and lack of public policies for inclusion.

" Digital inclusion is being made ​​by people, for small businesses. They will solve what the government can not solve, "says Schwartz.

In Vila Nogueira in Diadema, two neighboring streets concentrated five Internet cafes. The owner of one of them, Jerome's Thiago Silva, 26, opened the business for just over two weeks. One hour of Internet access costs $ 2. Silva users do not count, but ensures that, in the afternoon and evening, the 22-site computers are always busy.

Maik Antony dos Santos Cunha, 17, who arrived a week ago to the city, coming from Fortaleza, Ceará, takes advantage of the Internet cafe to give news to relatives and friends who were in the Northeast. "I save because I talk to more people at a lower price," he explains.

In the neighborhood Sacadura in Santo André, scenario resembles that of Diadema. "Most of that comes a teenager. Adults appear to access e-mail and search, "says Lais Garrão da Costa, an official in a location that offers Internet access at the Center for Business Sacadura. "

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