The article talks about the Social Technologies (TS), using as the experience of the authors articulate how a network of organizations working with TS in the state of Rio Grande do Sul It presents a brief historical background and the conceptual TS, relating them to the current policy of science and technology law in Brazil and also signaling to them as a demand for action and research of social workers, in view of the potential of TS to be constituted as a public policy and social innovation.
Social technology; Public policy; Social Work
