Digital exclusion: the challenge of the citizenship in the information technology era

Digital exclusion is the technical name for the abyss which separates people who have access to IT Information Technology resources from the others who don't have this access. A strong reality in taking-off countries, as Brazil is, which exists in parallel of the social exclusion. This work explains about the scenery of this reality and the attempts to solve this problem and, reflecting about the result of past policies against poorness and starvation in Brazil, finishes talking about the special role that must be played by the basic schools in order to eradicate the digital exclusion in the country