During undergraduate studies, I used to be uncomfortable with the naturalization of engineering, its methods and its effects and with the almost absence of discussions regarding the technoscience-society binomial. I began to find some answers to this discomfort as I approached the outreach-militancy in engineering at UFRJ itself, which has in the Núcleo de Solidariedade Técnica (SOLTEC) one of its main pillars. As a result of this approach, I joined the research area in Informatics and Society at PESC/COPPE/UFRJ, where I obtained a master's degree in 2013 proposing to open the black box of Digital Inclusion projects/discourses in Brazil, a work that, beyond the typically academic correlations, allowed me to approach a deep and rich Brazil, usually absent from the pages of engineering dissertations; places like Vigário Geral, Complexo da Maré, Complexo do Alemão and its people.
De volta à linha de pesquisa para o doutorado, defendi, em 2022, tese na qual apresentei uma narrativa sobre as promessas de Brasis colocadas em cena a partir das TICs, articulando três experiências: a Política Nacional de Informática dos anos 1970, o ExpressoBR como software derivado das iniciativas de software livre no Governo e a geração cidadã de dados em favelas via experiência do data_labe na Maré.
From September 2018 to February 2019 I held a position as visiting scholar in the Science and Technology Studies Program at University of California, Davis, with the support of a scholarship from CAPES' Programa de Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior (PDSE).
I am a teacher at Cefet/RJ, where I am engaged in research-outreach projects and teach classes in the secondary education. I am also a militant in the local union, where I advocate a free and public education. Besides the academic life, I enjoy poetry and hiking in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro.
Email: alberto@cos.ufrj.br
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