One of the founders of consulting firm Orbital (pictured, L, with his partner Wallace Erick) recounts the experience of participating in a Brazilian startup mission to the UAE and Qatar. The entrepreneur was impressed with the infrastructure and the political will to boost technological development.

The Brazilian Cooperation Agency’s Humanitarian Cooperation general coordinator José Solla visited Brazil’s Syrian Sports Club, where he signed an agreement for the government to collect and send medicine donations by plane to the Arab country hit by earthquakes in February. The emergency campaign Together for Syria is still accepting donations.