From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is going to present technology it develops at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Assembly of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Assembly of Governors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation. The meetings will take
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Agência Brasil Brasília – The US$ 100 laptop that is a brainchild of the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) may be in Brazilian schools in 2007, says presidential aide, Cezar Alvarez, who is coordinating a work group that is studying the possibility of Brazil enrolling in the MIT project: "A Laptop For Every Child." In
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology reports that it is issuing 45 contracts for research and innovation project financing worth US$ 367 million from the Scientific and Technological Development Fund (FNDCT). The contracts are aimed at four areas: 1) consolidation, expansion and integration of the National Science, Technology and Innovation
This is the forecast of the executive director of the Brazilian Chamber of Electronic Trade, Cid Torquato. He bets on an increase in the offer of digital services and in the number of users. The sector had revenues of R$ 12 billion (US$ 5.6 billion, at current exchange rates) in the country in 2005.
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation is going to send seeds of Gonçalo Alves trees, typical of the Brazilian savannah, to the International Space Station on the trip that Russian spacecraft Soyuz will make in March. The intention is to observe the germination of the plant to better understand the influence of gravity on its development. This depends only on tests that are being executed at the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) by Russian scientists.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil has 12.2 million residential Internet users, according to research centre Ibope/Net Ratings. The number refers to December 2005 and means growth of 12.4% when compared to December 2004. The average connection time, according to the study, is 17 hours and 59 minutes a month. Brazil is the leader
The work by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) will help in the operations of the peace force of the United Nations in the country. The material will be used to plan military tactics and supply information for developing agriculture and infrastructure in Haiti. The Embrapa is also going to formulate an agricultural and water resources project for the country.
Brazil is going to send an astronaut on a mission to space for the first time on March 22. Lieutenant-colonel Marco Pontes is going to take with him, on the spacecraft, nine results of Brazilian scientific research, among them a tropical tree, the result of work developed by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation.
The companies have prepared a package containing information regarding various applications for presentation to the Algerian government. Three of the companies participated in the mission led by the Brazilian minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, to the Arab country in November and hope to schedule, in mid January, a new trip to discuss the business.
OSE, from the city of Uberlândia, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, participated in the trade mission led by the Brazilian minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, to the Arab country. This week the company intends to send information about company products to the Algerian government, which is interested, for example, in systems for bank automation.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian exports of high and medium technology products totalled US$ 27.4 billion between January and September this year, presenting an increase of 33.5% when compared to the same period last year, according to figures supplied by the executive secretary of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Ivan
