This article aims to analyze and evaluate social gains with the use of information and communication technologies, mainly the internet, in communitarian Telecenters, as a tool for local development. It also tries to identify local development tendencies after the enlargement of TICs practice in a community characterized by extreme poverty The experience of Cidadão.NET Project (Citizen.NET) - a government initiative carried out in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with the purpose of aiding social development by means of access to information and communication’s technologies and communitarian involvement is described.
digital inclusion; local development; telecenters