Formative experiences for women

Brazil has 8.8 million young people aged 10 or more who are illiterate (IBGE, BRASIL, 2015). The State of Rio de Janeiro has a high number of young people and women with low education and in situations of vulnerability due to urban violence in the favelas. Therefore, young women in Brazilian favelas, due to extreme poverty, are not always able to attend schools. The training experience proposal implements an innovative and technological way for digital literacy, female empowerment and increased schooling.

The process of education and digital literacy for women questions and challenges how patriarchal relations demarcated by digital and unbalanced relationships between men and women, especially without family and work environments. One of the basic foundations of the topics covered on digital platforms will be body autonomy, sexuality, the right to come and go, financial independence and increased schooling.

One of the central aspects of the Brazilian development agenda is the confrontation of social inequalities and the debate on the social issue involves assessing the impacts of the population's educational problems. The participation of women in Brazilian education happened late and in a limited way. We can emphasize that, the mentality generated in the sec. XIX, promoted teaching as an ideal preparation for her future role as a mother. The teaching workforce, especially women, in restricted parameters, is still controlled by men. The Brazilian population is made up of 51.7% women. The male population has a younger pattern than the female: in the age group up to 24 years, in 2018, men totaled 18.2%, while women, 17.5% (PNAD, 2018). According to Youtube Insights, in 2017, 98 million Brazilians were connected on different channels about music, humor, games, gastronomy, fashion, beauty and lifestyle. The average female salary is 76.49% lower than the male.

There is an intense inequality associated with racial belonging, age, economic origin and digital inclusion that makes the educational advancement of women and their digital inclusion unfeasible. A digital democratization, from an educational perspective, can reduce how gender hierarchies and how they interact with the female universe.

The creation of the Knowledge Portal "Digital training experience" will implement digital activities for Brazilian adolescents and young women in situations of social vulnerability. The interactive exercises will enhance the exchange of knowledge, information; and, (re) knowledge of subjects who belong to urban peripheries. At the first access, women will take a quiz on general aspects of their life expectations and education level, After analysis they will be directed to different training itineraries according to the profile and education level. There will be a network of sharing and cooperation through accessibility and dynamic layout.

The platform will have a programming language that helps to approach the solution more accurately. A panoramic study of the different languages will be made: HTML 5, Javascript, CSS, WebGL and Action Script 3.0. For the editions, free digital media editing software will be used. After the formative itinerary, women are encouraged to a sustainable digital insertion.

The portal is a space for dialogue and the creation of affective bonds between women and the use of information in different digital sources. Essentially, the production of materials, videos, photos, texts and audio recordings will be relevant for a better homogeneity in the quality of the training itineraries.

The results integrate different educational technologies in order to promote the development of skills necessary for monitoring women and their educational advances. Digital literacy will make women increasingly autonomous, aware, critical and authoritative in all spheres of their social practices. In Brazil, we will be able to overcome social and economic inequality, such as high illiteracy rates and difficult access to computers with quality internet in public schools. In this sense, the material made available in the formative itineraries of the Knowledge Portal platform will prioritize easy access to offline content, in addition to indicating useful tools for women's daily life. 

Another important issue will be the increase in schooling, as well as the indication of scripts, mastery of different languages and the stimulation of the valorization of the Portuguese language. The Brazilian public, mostly female, is expected to play a leading role in social media and also in the job market. Acting proactively, entrepreneurial and autonomous. The social literacy of women will go beyond the use of technological tools, but it will constitute empowerment as a way of understanding, questioning and going beyond the information obtained through the internet.

The solution's coordination has experience with technological innovations and educational software and comparative studies between Brazil and Portugal.

For 20 years in the area of education, she has performed several consultancies for international organizations with an digital inclusion. The solution is part of the challenge by promoting the insertion of adolescents and young women from urban peripheries, in situations of risk, in the training itineraries that collaborate to increase their schooling and expand their professional performance in the labor market. The solution contributes to the use of technologies in a democratic way for women's empowerment (entrepreneurship) and expansion of opportunities.