Tecnologias de informação e comunicação na Marinha do Brasil: fortalecimento da base humana como fator de defesa dos interesses marítimos nacionais

Abstract

This research aims to establish how could the information and communication technology contribute to strengthen the human basis of the Brazilian seapower. The following issues were considered: how the new digital midia could contribute to strengthen this human basis; how to use them to consolidate a defending conscience and a Brazilian sea mentality; and what are the relations among politics, navy force, public opinion and defense of national interests. The nature of these issues demanded a qualitative dimension to this research. The work was conducted by a bibliographyc research, which fundamented the study using indirect documentation. A textual analysis was made on this documentation. It was included an identification of historical facts, putting to test the considered relations. The following study results stand out: the increasing strategic needs of digital midia due its penetration power in all social layers, its geographic reach and interactive nature; the power of information influence; and the importance of education, innovation and knowledge, to strengthen all the human basis dimensions