O Sistema Único de Assistência Social (SUAS) e as tecnologias: os sistemas de informação na Política de Assistência Social

Abstract

This research project aims to contribute to the current debate about technology and its importance in the management of Social Assistance Policy. Based on the understanding that technologies are instruments, a means that facilitate the processes of knowledge of reality, its analysis and decision-making, whether concentrated or democratic decisions, we will seek to deepen reflections on the advancement of information technologies (ITs) and its impacts on contemporary society, mainly in the management of public policies, specifically in social assistance. Thus, we will endeavor to analyze the use of information systems for the management of the Social Assistance Policy, seeking to understand ITs in the context of contemporary capitalism, discussing the use of information technologies in the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) and understanding the monitoring and evaluation of data produced by managers. To do so, we will use some important categories in this discussion: social issue, state, social policy, technology.