Browsing Tag government
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3 August 2011 at 11 : 30 AM
‘Science without borders’ sending students overseas
Earlier this week, the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology announced a major new plan to grant scholarships to Brazilian students who want to study in foreign universities. ...
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2 August 2011 at 20 : 16 PM
Brazilian industrial policy: what it means for IT
A series of measures announced today as part of the new Brazilian industrial policy will have a series of implications for the IT sector, including lower hiring costs. IT Decisions gives a summary of the Brasil Maior plan and what it means for the technology industry. ...
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26 July 2011 at 19 : 08 PM
IT’s Brazil: The National Broadband Plan
Top politicians in Brazil have been repeatedly quoted as saying that conditions need to be created to lead Brazil into the knowledge economy recently, but are the fundamentals in place for that? The series IT's Brazil will examine the components of the government’s strategy around technology and in this first article, we cover the National Broadband ...
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19 July 2011 at 04 : 45 AM
Facebook addicts can get fired in Brazil
The IT Decisions publishing director, Angelica Mari recently started a discussion on LinkedIn focused on the legality of employees using the Internet at work. She asked: "In Brazil, using the web for more than an hour for activities that are unrelated to work is considered as gross misconduct and can lead to justified dismissal. What is the legal ...
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12 July 2011 at 18 : 36 PM
Bullet train project off the rails
An auction for the right to build a high-speed rail link between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo has failed to attract any bidders, casting doubt on the project in its present form. ...
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11 July 2011 at 17 : 15 PM
Should China’s investment in Brazil be welcomed?
As part of Europe teeters on the verge of bankruptcy with countries like Greece staring into an economic abyss, there are some economies around the world that are actually doing very nicely. ...
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1 July 2011 at 17 : 25 PM
Brazilian government remains under hacker siege
The personal email of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been hacked as well as the Twitter account of the former governor of the state of São Paulo, José Serra, in the latest development of what is Brazil's most severe wave of cyber attacks of its history. ...
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29 June 2011 at 15 : 59 PM
Case study: Brazilian NGO fights digital divide
Public and private sector organizations are teaming up to bridge the digital exclusion experienced by millions of Brazilians. In the second instalment of a two-part article, digital inclusion specialist and coordinator for institutional relations at NGO Rede Marista de Solidariedade, Alexandre Siqueira Mesquita, talks about how the organization is ...
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28 June 2011 at 16 : 32 PM
Does Brazil have the IT security it needs?
Just eleven days ago, IT Decisions spoke with William Beer, director of OneSecurity at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and asked him about the risks of a cyber attack on Brazil. How prescient was that conversation? ...
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28 June 2011 at 16 : 16 PM
Digital inclusion in Brazil: a social right
Both government and society are now realizing the need to bridge the digital divide currently experienced by millions of Brazilians. Digital inclusion specialist and coordinator for institutional relations at NGO Rede Marista de Solidariedade, Alexandre Siqueira Mesquita, talks about the progress made so far in a two-part guest article for IT Decisions. ...
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