{"id":2122,"date":"2026-09-15T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:37:42","slug":"tecnologia-sem-teto-por-territorios-digitais-soberanos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=2122&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Tecnologia Sem-Teto: por territ\u00f3rios digitais soberanos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexandre Costa Barbosa et al. (eds.), <em>Tecnologia Sem-Teto: por territ\u00f3rios digitais soberanos<\/em>, S\u00e3o Paulo: Editora Dandara \/ N\u00facleo de Tecnologia do MTST, 2025, 138 pp. ISBN: 978-65-88586-48-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tecnologia Sem-Teto<\/em> is a collective work that examines <strong>the experiences of Brazil\u2019s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto (MTST \u2013 Homeless Workers\u2019 Movement) in the field of technology, the debate on digital sovereignty, and the possibilities for the collective appropriation of technology by social movements<\/strong>. Drawing on the experience of the MTST\u2019s N\u00facleo de Tecnologia (Technology Center), the book approaches technology not as a technical sphere standing outside social struggles, but as a direct part of class relations and political struggle. Within this framework, the central issue is not the existence of technology itself, but <strong>who controls technology, for what purposes, and in accordance with which social interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the heart of the book is the concept of <strong>\u201cpopular digital sovereignty\u201d (soberania digital popular)<\/strong>. Rather than reducing digital sovereignty to the technological independence of states or the data privacy of individuals, this approach associates it with the capacity of workers and communities to collectively develop knowledge, tools, and infrastructures in the field of technology. Against the use of the Internet, platforms, data, and artificial intelligence solely in the forms provided by large corporations, the book advocates <strong>the development of technologies grounded in the needs and experiences of the working class and the social appropriation of technological knowledge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This perspective is complemented by the book\u2019s conception of <strong>the \u201csocial function of technology.\u201d<\/strong> The MTST\u2019s work in the field of technology counters market-centered notions of innovation with a collective and participatory practice of technological production arising from the concrete needs of communities. In this sense, technological innovation does not simply mean developing new products or applications, but creating tools that strengthen the autonomy and capacity for self-organization of communities. The book discusses this approach as <strong>moving beyond technology as an instrument of resistance and making it part of the construction of alternative social relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book also develops this approach through the MTST\u2019s concrete experiences of organization. While workers in the technology sector find opportunities for collective political activity and organization within the N\u00facleo, workers from other sectors, such as construction and domestic work, also engage actively with technologies, learning about them, teaching others, and appropriating them in accordance with collective needs. Thus, <strong>technological production and class organization are understood not as separate processes, but as practices that mutually reinforce one another<\/strong>; class solidarity, in turn, becomes one of the organizing principles of technological production itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across twelve chapters organized into five parts, the book discusses interconnected areas such as <strong>technology and class struggle, popular digital sovereignty, the social function of technology, solidarity-based and community-centered connectivity infrastructures, critical technology education, decent work, data, and digital rights<\/strong>. The book is therefore not merely an account of the MTST\u2019s technological initiatives, but an attempt to develop, on the basis of these experiences, a broader political perspective on how digital technologies can be reorganized from below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this respect, <em>Tecnologia Sem-Teto<\/em> is <strong>a noteworthy resource that extends debates on workers\u2019 control and self-management into the sphere of digital technologies and infrastructures<\/strong>. Much like the question of control over the means of production in factories or workplaces, it raises the question of who controls code, platforms, data, networks, and infrastructures under digital capitalism. Through the experience of the MTST, the book demonstrates that access to technology alone is not enough; <strong>the capacity of workers and communities to collectively develop technology, shape its direction, and use it in accordance with their own social needs<\/strong> is crucial to the construction of an alternative digital future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Costa Barbosa et al. (eds.), Tecnologia Sem-Teto: por territ\u00f3rios digitais soberanos, S\u00e3o Paulo: Editora Dandara \/ N\u00facleo de Tecnologia do MTST, 2025, 138 pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,105,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-labour","category-resources","category-solidarity-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}