The fair started on Sunday (13), as part of the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), and should go on to Friday (18). Apart from the exhibition, there will be debates and business roundtables in areas such as energy, nano-technology, and biotechnology.
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The Arabs are mainly interested in telemedicine and nuclear medicine. The agreement will permit exchanges between medical students. The Tunisians were impressed with the installations of the hospital in São Paulo.
Agência Brasil Brasília – From now on, the 5.2 million square kilometers that form the Amazon region as it is administratively defined ("Amazônia Legal") will be monitored in real time by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama). Yesterday (13) marked the inauguration of the Environmental Monitoring Center (Cemam), which will
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
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
