Agência Brasil Brasília – With a course that will be held this month in Brasília, Brazil begins the training of civil servants in the use of Free Software. Free Software replaces proprietary software and constitutes an open technology that enhances the integration and autonomy of information systems. For the government, this means reducing software costs
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The International Software Business Meeting (ISBM) will be taking place in Brasília from April 27 to 29. "Brazil is at an excellent point to occupy space in the IT area in the region," informed Gilberto Lima, project coordinator at Brazilian Intelligence in Software (Brains), the consortium of exporters who organizes the event, to ANBA.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro) is developing a software program, called Open Screen, that will convert written into spoken text. The program, which is especially designed for people with visual deficiencies to navegate on the internet, will be distributed without charge. Marcos Kinsky, a Serpro analyst, said today that the
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Speaking at the Catholic University (PUC) of Rio de Janeiro yesterday, minister of Science and Technology, Eduardo Campos, called for a National System of Science, Technology and Innovation which will allow development at the regional level. According to the minister, the idea is to reduce regional disparities, making it possible
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.
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
