Sociedade da informação e do conhecimento no Haiti: o (co) agenciamento dos imaginários (coloniais, neoliberais e internacionais) na organização do Estado.

Abstract

This article analyzes the information and knowledge society in Haiti as a historical experience lived by otherness. It aims to explore the forms of interaction between the world-society and Haiti in order to understand the institution and (re)configuration of the information and knowledge society in the country. It opts for an apprehension of the information and knowledge society as a resultant and direct instance of three modes of interaction: colonial, neocolonial and international relations. These three modes of relationship are apparently separate, but they participate in the same imaginary networks of superiority and inferiority, of denial or contempt of the country as the "other" to be included in the world order. Therefore, the persistence of underdevelopment in the country, in addition to the joint efforts in favor of the realization of the bets of the information and knowledge society project, is, a priori, a question of a symbolic order in, whose roots are imaginary environment that is based on asymmetrical relationships dating from the colonial Era. In the information and knowledge society, this domination is transversalized by the instrumentalization of symbolic capital whose symbolic-material instance is found in the matrix composed by information-knowledge-technology.