Afrociberdelia mocamba: Baobáxia na rota digital do Campinho da Independência

Abstract

A synthesis of words “baobab” and “galaxy”, Baobáxia is a free digital system created to allow the storage and sharing of multimedia materials by places with restrictions or no access to the internet. Designed by members and partners of Rede Mocambos, this platform is part of the educational journey practiced by Casa de Cultura Tainã with quilombolas, indigenous, caiçaras and small farmers on digital technological appropriation. Designed to work mainly with rural communities, this free software synchronizes information in a decentralized way from the internet, when available, and/or from the data exchange between people who circulate with the program installed on some mobile device. Its implementation process assumed the dynamics of wanderings across the territories and earned the name "Baobáxia on the Route of the Baobabs" for incorporating the planting of seedlings of the ancient African tree through meetings of technological dialogues. With baobáxia system installed in quilombo Campinho da Independência, as a partner of the network, this research sought to explore ways to identify how the work promoted by the Rede Mocambos, in articulation of traditional communities and public policies, was or was not assimilated in Campinho in its context digital. Started with a bibliographic review on the formation of the internet, the case of the GESAC program for rural areas and the Cultura Viva program, this work also included field visits, interviews, analysis of databases and digital content. With the support of authors who work with social networks, such as Barnes and Bott, and theorists who work with technologies made by technologically marginalized populations, such as Fouché and Eglash, this work is an initial exploration on the theme that involves a multicultural network of people and knowledge in the joint appropriation of common technologies.