Registration for the event will end on May 31 this year. The fair is going to precede the World Summit on the Information Society, to take place in Tunis next year, preceding the return to the debates started in Geneva in 2003.
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Agência Brasil Panama City – The heads of Election Boards (presidentes do Tribunal Supremo Eleitoral) in Costa Rica, Oscar Fonseca, and Honduras, Manuel Alvarado, have expressed interest in using Brazilian technology in electronic voting machines in general elections in 2006. Brazil is exhibiting its technology at the 2nd Interamerican Conference on Election Technology which is
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Chief Justices (presidents) of the Federal Election Boards (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral) of Brazil and Ecuador, Sepúlveda Pertence and Nicanor Moscoso, respectively, have signed a technical cooperation contract that will make it possible for Ecuador to use 800 Brazilian electronic voting machines in municipal elections this October. The agreement is supported
The first team to arrive at Commander Ferraz Station, the Brazilian village in Antarctica, spent 32 days adapting to the hostile climate and counted only on radio communication.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – The Brazilian Space Agency and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos) should sign a cooperation agreement for modernization of the Brazilian rocket fleet. This information was provided today by the president of Rosaviakosmos, Yury Koptev, during a press conference in Moscow, informed Russian RBC news agency. According to
Agência Brasil São Paulo – An enzyme extracted from papaya peels, papayene, may become the salvation of people who frequently put off visits to the dentist for fear of the whirring of the drill and all the other discomforts common in the treatment of cavities. Combined with other components, such as chloramine antiseptic, this substance
On Friday (16), Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva released the National Biofuel Pole, in Piracicaba, interior of the southeastern state of São Paulo, with the objective of maintenance and increase of Brazilian competitiveness in the production of renewable fuel.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Science and Technology reports that it has set up a pioneer work group with the objective of developing free software for use in the government. This first group, consisting of twenty employees who underwent special training, is part of a broad effort by the Brazilian government to reduce
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) selected four more Brazilian scientists to join the institution. Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo, Antônio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, George Alexandre dos Reis, and José Fernando Perez were chosen to become new members at the 9th General Conference of the TWAS, held in Beijing. Founded
