Uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação em programas de educação ambiental nas unidades de conservação do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Despite the natural convergence between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Environmental Education (EE), in some contexts, such as the EE developed in Protected Areas (PA), the initiatives are still incipient, or at least are few cases reported. This paper presents preliminary research on the use of ICT in programs of EE developed in the PA in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). By applying a questionnaire to managers of protected areas, via electronic mail, we evaluated the development of EE programs, as well as the use of ICTs in these programs. While most PA evaluated using ICT at least one provided in the questionnaire, the low frequencies achieved for almost all items showed that ICT are still little used in the EE developed in the PA of the RS state.