The work done at the LANTRI has as main caracteristc to be an experimental project that has been lead by principles extracted from the work of Mariano and Bressan (2008), which indicates gerneral rules for the use of the new technologies in the Human and Social Sciences Reseraches:

a) The speed of the technology innovation demands for constant new solutions;

b) Solutions and investments applied, even though being efficient to a determinate quest, can become obsolets in a very short amount of time;

c) There is the necessity of, periodically, to reconsider the applied methods and research new solitions that comes with the technologies advances;

d) Technicals difficulties will appear during the assimilation of new communication and technologies process, but the most importat obstacle that must be foreseen is the resistence of the researcher in using an innovation;

e) It is important to priorize the use of OpenSource Solutions and, preferably, that are multiplatform, or at least that works for Microsoft Windows and Linux;

f) Prioritize the solutions already avaible in the market and that has a low cost as a way of diminishing the dependence of the specialized technical services, maximizing the injected investments;

g) Prioritize the use of  soutions that demand a low technical knowledge to its use as a way to accelerate the user assimilation of the mechanism.

h) Necessity to understand and colect informations about the possibilities created with the technological evolution as a way to spare investiments in equipments, processes, programs or services that will be, in a short amount of time, suplantad by the high level of innovations;

i) Delay the investments in Hardware trying to foresee the possible software and services innovations, as long as it does not interfere in the work cronogram that must be done;

j) It's highly important to document every new process evaluation as a stratedy to develop patterns to compare technologicals solutions, also, for that the new users can absorve this information faster;

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k) Before purchasing a new software or service it's important to test the possibility of distributing the right tasks to the existent solutions, or that it can be complementes by open-source Softwares, allowing to construct the pattern to compare the efficiency, speed and the cost of the software to be purchased;

l) The use of the Web 2.0 must be orientades by a redundant information strategy as well as by a data security policy to prevent data loss, not authorized acceces, data copy, or the paralization of the services (exemple Megaupload, Google Groups, etc.).
 

Bibliography: MARIANO, Marcelo P. e BRESSAN, Regiane N. Ciências Humanas e a Utilização das Tecnologias de Informação. IN: VIGEVANI, Tullo (coord.); BARRETO, Maria Inês; WANDERLEY, Luiz Eduardo; RAICHELIS, Raquel NOGUEIRA, Marco Aurélio (coord. técn.) et al. Gestão pública e inserção internacional das cidades. São Paulo: Cedec/UNESP/PUC-SP, nov. 2008, 1024p.