Browsing Month September, 2011
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30 September 2011 at 11 : 12 AM
Brazil: where else would you rather be?
This is not strictly about IT, but there was a delightful column by Tyler Brûlé in the Financial Times last weekend where he outlined all the reasons why people sick of the economic gloom in Europe and the USA should come to Brazil. ...
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28 September 2011 at 15 : 05 PM
Education in Brazil – it no longer works
The popular Brazilian news magazine Veja has a striking front cover this week featuring a business executive with steam bursting from his ears above the headline 'Não dá mais' - it no longer works. ...
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28 September 2011 at 13 : 34 PM
Bringing crowd wisdom into Brazil’s classrooms
After our recent comment on how Brazilian educators need to embrace changes in technology if they want to succeed in preparing pupils for the twenty-first century, an old friend of IT Decisions got in touch with his own comment. George Bell is a human resources and organizational behavior expert from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a visiting lecturer at ...
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27 September 2011 at 20 : 47 PM
Brazil moves up IT rankings – but skills gap and red tape threaten future progress
The IT sector in Brazil has become more competitive but excessive taxation and scarcity of qualified manpower continue to hamper growth, according to a study carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). ...
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27 September 2011 at 16 : 09 PM
Brazilian educators must embrace technology
A few days ago, London held a TEDx event themed around the Education Revolution, homage and a follow up from the latest TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson where he spoke about changing education paradigms. ...
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21 September 2011 at 12 : 17 PM
How much is an iPad worth in Brazil?
It's great news that Foxconn has commenced production of Apple iPods at their factory in Jundiai, close to São Paulo. iPads are set to follow soon and the locally-produced versions should be in stores before the end of this year. ...
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21 September 2011 at 11 : 05 AM
Brazil tells Europe ‘sort out your economy’
For the past few years, the IT Decisions team has been telling everyone who would listen that the technology industry in Brazil is an exciting place to be - we moved from Europe to be a part of this industry. ...
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20 September 2011 at 13 : 10 PM
English training for techies is in the cloud
IT Decisions has commented in the past on the difficulties faced by IT professionals in Brazil who want to learn, or improve, their English language skills - though given the growth of the IT industry in Brazil some might argue that the rest of the world needs to learn Portuguese. ...
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15 September 2011 at 19 : 37 PM
Interview: Luis Ricardo Almeida, CIO, Chubb
Dealing with business expectations from the IT function, the trouble with mobile development, the challenge of the Generation Y: the CIO at insurance giant Chubb Luis Ricardo Almeida talked about these topics and more, in an exclusive interview with IT Decisions. ...
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13 September 2011 at 19 : 27 PM
Public technical schools rate among the best in Brazil
State-run technical schools in Brazil have been placed among the best public schools in the country, according to new government statistics. ...
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