Tecnologias sociais e sua contribuições para a sustentabilidade: proposição de um sistema de indicadores para diagnóstico, monitoramento e avaliação.

Abstract

Social technologies have emerged earlier this twenty-first century with explicit objectives to improve the quality of life, social inclusion and empowerment of disadvantaged sections of the population, which makes inadequate review from the indicators that are usually adopted to evaluate conventional technologies. Based on bibliographical and documentary research, analyzing the theory and practical cases proposed to the System of Indicators for Diagnosis, Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Technologies (SIDMATECS), whose validation was made through the empirical application in the Community Seed Banks (BSC) in Rural Territory of Borborema, Paraíba state. The results show that the community seed bank constitutes a genuine social technology, highly effective with regard to their specific purposes to conserve and recover the local agro-biodiversity, ensuring food and nutritional security of families and productive autonomy of farmers, as well as in relation to social inclusion, improving the quality of life and empowerment of its users, contributing to greater sustainability of territorial agricultural activity.