ICT in Culture

Survey Objectives

The objective of the ICT in Culture survey is to understand the presence and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Brazilian cultural facilities. The indicators help guide public cultural and digital government policies that contribute to the democratization of access to culture and reinforce the importance of the sector in the country's economic development. They also help the sector understand the challenges and opportunities related to the application of digital technologies, both in internal operations and in the relationship between facilities and their audiences.

Survey Areas

ICT in Culture collects indicators on ICT access, use and appropriation, such as:

Profile of cultural facilities;
ICT infrastructure;
ICT use;
Collections and digitization;
ICT skills.

Institutional Support

The survey receives institutional support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and experts linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (MinC), civil society organizations, and universities.

International References

The investigation uses the methodological framework for producing cultural indicators established by the UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics.

Methodology

The survey is national in scope and examines public and private cultural facilities listed in official registries provided by government organizations:

Archives (National Registry of Custodial Entities for Archive Collections of the National Archives Council [Conarq]);
Heritage sites (at the federal level, open for visits and classified as “buildings” and “buildings and collections” by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage [Iphan]);
Libraries (registered under the National Public Library System [SNBP]);
Cinemas (exhibition complexes registered with the Brazilian Film Agency [Ancine]);
Museums (National Registry of Museums of the Brazilian Institute of Museums [Ibram]);
Culture points (National Registry of Culture Points);
Theaters (list provided by the National Arts Foundation [Funarte]).

The survey uses simple stratified sampling and in some strata a census of cultural facilities is carried out.