ICT usage in Contexts of Regional Inequalities

Abstract

This short paper aims to identify the differences of ICT usage among municipalities in Brazil, especially in local governments. Thus, it intends to describe the characteristics of technology use among Brazilian municipalities. This first effort is looking for defining those characteristics through a quantitative analysis using secondary data from ICT Electronic Government Survey 2017 - a national survey conducted every two years by the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of Information Society (Cetic.br). Statistical analysis provided four clusters related to the dimensions defined for the study. The clusters enabled us to describe and analyze the main characteristics of ICT use by Brazilian local governments. They also pointed out the inequalities related to ICT access and adoption by the different municipalities in the country, including some initial insights about the level of usage.