The informational contents in the electronic networks are analyzed from the point of view of its social impact and promotion of cultural identity. Penetration and capilarity of information technologies are considered as the main indicators of development of the information society and it argues on behalf of installing points of access to Internet in public and school libraries. It is also in favor of implementing production of contents, their records and diffusion within the government, of the society by individuals, in order to reflect the cultural and regional, urban, peripherical and rural diversities, as well as the retrieval of the memory already registered in the Portuguese Language, but not yet accessible. The document was written with the participation of experts from all parts of the country and is used as a basis for the elaboration of Chapter 5 of the Green Book of the Program Information Society in Brazil - SocInfo.
Cultural identity; Information contents; Internet; Information society; SocInfo