Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (IBICT) and professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science at IBICT/UFRJ.
China's ability to create low-cost solutions in the field of digital technology helps put pressure on current market leaders to seek technological solutions that are less harmful to the environment.
It is important to avoid superficial instrumentalism that promotes technological innovations in the digital era and instead focus on the political and economic factors shaping the dominant mode of information production.