(Re)pensando a sociedade da informação e do conhecimento na periferia: um estudo de caso do Haiti

Abstract

It analyzes the information and knowledge society in Haiti through a critical look at the perspectives that guide the models of its initiatives in favor of socioeconomic development. Methodologically, this is a case study that aims to understand why the information projects and programs implemented in Haiti in recent years have not sufficiently met the proposed objectives and to verify whether they respond to the specific demands of the country to normalize in the interior of this modality of globalized society. It is an approach that seeks to guide the study of the information and knowledge society to apprehend the components of Haiti's modes of interaction with the world-society; such components include cultural attitudes, representations and practices and economic-political and social behaviors that involve the country's relationship with the globalized social body. The epistemology of this bet is dimensioned and configured in the informational culture that builds and institutes the meanings: political, geopolitical, sociological, anthropological, educational, historical, technical, technological, sociocultural and economic, both in informational action and in the culture of information. Thus, it proceeds to systematize the evidence arising from the implementation of this model of society in the country to build and extract variables and indicators, seeking an interpretive scheme towards a hermeneutic phenomenology centered on the particular experience and context of Haiti, in order to achieve a historical understanding of the phenomenon of the information and knowledge society in the country. The diagnosis of this analytical exercise is approached from the critical perspective of the Universalization of Human Rights through the criteria based on the Millennium Development Goals, unfolded in the 2030 Agenda; more precisely, that which presupposes inserting the matrix organized by information-knowledge-technology as a strategic basis for achieving the country's development in this dynamic of society. Therefore, a detailed reflection is presented on the social, political, educational, cultural and economic influence of projects and programs that imply the implementation of this nature of society in the country, and the ways of institutionalizing power relations involving these initiatives are analyzed. In the analysis of the Haitian experience, it is observed that the information and knowledge society results from an original, direct and consecutive instance of three modes of interaction, namely colonial, neo-colonial and international cooperation relations. These three modes of relationships are apparently separate, but they participate in the same imaginary networks of inferiority, denial or contempt of the country as the “other” to be included in the world order. It was identified that colonization is related to the conquest, slavery, administration and occupation of the country whose population is considered as a thing, savage and uncivilized; neo-colonization results from the dynamics of (re)administration of colonial relations and international cooperation as an enterprise of cultural conquest and occupation of the imagination through the materialization of the senses that normalize Haiti as a poor, underdeveloped and peripheral country and community, configuring it in a society composed of subsystems: cultural subsystem, social subsystem, political subsystem and economic subsystem; consequently, such subsystems have not been able to adequately fulfill their respective functions, because, dominated by the political violence of the world-system, they decadently reproduce its functioning in an anachronistic, perverse and chaotic way.