Sistemas de informação na área de defesa: instrumentos para capacitação de pessoal e para a divulgação da mentalidade de defesa à sociedade brasileira

Abstract

The research purports to investigate information systems in the Defense area and related areas and how they can contribute to the personnel training and the dissemination of the Defense mentality in Brazilian society. The study is based on authors from the field that address concepts and practices for efficient information systems. Two tools that present products and services for knowledge management are analyzed. It identified how library networks expanded their goals in the digital age. Examples of good practices in information management have been demonstrated through the description of library networks and digital repositories of academic and research institutions in Brazil. It was explained about institutes that develop scientific production in Defense and its availability in information systems in the Defense Ministry and Military Commands. The research proposes actions for the implementation and perspectives for the creation of an Ibero-American cooperation network in libraries of Defense subject. It was described how the information systems are structured in Ibero-American countries that can act in the construction of the Ibero-American Network. Finally, the research shows that information systems, library networks and digital repositories favor access to knowledge in Defense studies and related areas in a global context. Those factors contribute to the personnel training and dissemination of the Defense mentality to Brazilian society.