During a public hearing at the Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and Computer Science (CCT), destined to debate audiovisual content in times of technological convergence, on Thursday (23), the minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, affirmed that the convergence of technologies can bring diversity, more information and cultural pluralism.

According to the minister, the government wants to universalize access to the benefits of convergence, in order to "overcome the gap between the ones that have access to the Internet and the ones that just have five channels of open TV."

The minister considers that, as broadband Internet becomes more affordable in Brazil, the Brazilian audiovisual market will grow, bringing new economic actors and new investors to the scenery, as telephony companies.

- It is necessary to take notice whether new capitals come to finance our cultural diversity or just to increase the contents of foreign language in Brazil. We want American films, but also films from other countries. We want diversity, not just what five or six centers produce. It was not what happened with cable TV, that today presents little national and international diversity, where there is the prevalence of only one language - the minister said.