Social technology and the relationship with the Thousand Women Program

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the relationship between social technology (ST) and the Thousand Women Program (PMM), listing the similarities with the concept of ST and the contradictions that surround them. It refers to a qualitative approach of a bibliographic, documentary and descriptive nature. The results indicate that the PMM needs to be reformulated to be a ST, as some actions and directions at the beginning of this initiative, such as the active participation of women in the construction of the project and its evaluation, were closely related to the characteristics of the ST, but still adjustments would need to be made to ensure their involvement in the full creation of the PMM. On the other hand, both present in concept a response to a social problem through the valorization of local knowledge, they are related to the solidarity economy, with self-management, low cost and can be reapplied. Therefore, the PMM can be considered a precursor to social technologies as it uses a type of professional training to disseminate knowledge and subsequently, this knowledge learned by women in situations of social vulnerability can be applied in the development of ST. In other words, in TS the process is more important than the artifact itself, with the democratization of the participatory technological bias of several workers, that is, with vulnerable women and the adaptation to the territory where they live to reapply and have autonomy with TS seized.