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  - Population 191.6 mln
  - Population growth 1%
  - Life expectancy 72 years
  - Net migration -229,000
  - GDP $2.15 bln
  - - per capita $5,860
  - - growth rate 5%
  - FDI, net inflows $2.15 bln
  - Cellphone users 63%
  - Internet users 35%
  - High-tech exports 12%

Increasing Citizen Partnership in Local Governance: Latin America

Increasing Citizen Partnership in Local Governance: Latin America

r4d.dfid.gov.uk –

Local citizen participation has long been acknowledged as a useful tool to enhance public policies: it improves policies’ responsiveness to the population’s needs and quality as citizens make creative and innovative proposals to solve development challenges. In the last two decades, countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru have developed new mechanisms to foster citizen participation at the local level by creating citizen participation bodies, or what we term here more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Brazil ́s Action Plan within the Open Government Partnership

opengovpartnership.org –

Brazil’s participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) reflects the country’s commitment to strengthen transparency of Government actions. Following this introduction is a self-assessment report of the initiatives undertaken by the country in its first Action Plan within the OGP. This is a second version of the report, developed out of recommendations from the Independent Review Mechanism of OGP and comments from society after the publication of the initial report, which was available more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

How to Use ICTs to Provide Better Services to Citizens: Brazil’s e-Procurement

How to Use ICTs to Provide Better Services to Citizens: Brazil’s e-Procurement

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) within its 30 member countries as well as globally, is promoting new forms of public management, new approaches to service delivery and new technologies changing how the public sector operates. Important dimension are preserving the trust of citizens in government while also devolving the public sector, ensuring conformity with government objectives, controlling expenditures, and monitoring performance. OECD has organized global more...

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Moushumi Biswas to e-Procurement on April 16, 2013

Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 1: Mobile Phones and Information Technology

Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 1: Mobile Phones and Information Technology

Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennnium Development Goals (MDGs).They are the innovators. Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1. If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (www.southerninnovator.org).

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David South on April 15, 2013

Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 3: Agribusiness and Food Security

Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 3: Agribusiness and Food Security

Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennnium Development Goals (MDGs).They are the innovators.Issue 1 covered the theme of mobile phones and information technology. Issue 2 covered the theme of youth and entrepreneurship. Issue 3 covers the theme of agribusiness and food security. Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1.

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David South on April 15, 2013

The use of open data in the search of public financing

The search of public financing, management and tracking of scientific results derived from Research & Development and Innovation projects constitutes a business activity under which a remarkable number of consultancy firms, research centres and public organizations spend an important amount of resources. In this paper, the authors present the relation of the open data, from a users’ point of view, as well as the business processes related to the search of public financing and more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 11, 2013

Brazil and the Fog of Cyber War

This paper furthers the analysis presented in the previous working paper, “Reflections on the Fog of (Cyber)War” (Canabarro & Borne, 2013), by assessing the Brazilian approach to cybersecurity. It analyses some of the most important documents on security issued by the Brazilian government since redemocratization in order to access the adequacy of its policy in the light of the controversies presented before.The paper first pictures cyberspace in Brazil and introduces three landmark more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 10, 2013

Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe and curb deforestation

Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe and curb deforestation

washingtonpost.com –

The Surui in the Brazilian Amazon were living a very traditional life when roads were built into their traditional territory in the 1960s. They were hit by epidemic after epidemic, and saw their population reduced by something like 95 percent. "Yet there were strong chiefs who instilled the need for ready-to-act young leaders." The Surui population has again reached 1300. Almir, their current chief, was the first Surui to study in a university. Wielding cell phones and GPS more...

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John Daly on April 9, 2013

Banco Palmas

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Banco Palmas is a Brazilian community bank founded in 1998 in Conjunto Palmeiras, a neighborhood of 32,000 inhabitants located in the suburbs of Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil operating under the principle of the "Solidarity Socio-Economy." It was the first of a large number of similarly structured community banks - also known as "community development banks" (CDBs) - throughout Brazil. It is managed locally by the Association of Residents of Conjunto Palmeira (Associação dos Moradores do Conjunto more...

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John Daly on April 7, 2013

Traditionally Occupied Lands in Brazil

Traditionally Occupied Lands in Brazil

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Based on more than thirty years of research focusing on social movement mobilization and land issues throughout Brazil, Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida’s book Traditionally Occupied Lands in Brazil analyses the relationship between the rise of social movements based on collective identities and the “traditionally occupied lands” that many of these groups are struggling to defend, maintain, and recover.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on April 7, 2013

Tribal Leader Uses Maptivism and Mobile to Improve Life in the Brazilian Rainforest

Tribal Leader Uses Maptivism and Mobile to Improve Life in the Brazilian Rainforest

techpresident.com –

Forty years ago, the once-isolated Surui people of the western Brazilian rainforest were suffering with the consequences of contact with modern society. Over the past several decades, the tribe has been threatened by disease, substance abuse, and the threat of deforestation on their ancestral land. Yet today, an advanced technological agenda is helping to revive and preserve the Surui way of life, under the leadership of a tribal chief with a long-term vision for ecological and more...

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Moushumi Biswas to Open Development Technology Alliance on March 30, 2013

BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK: 'THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL'

BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK: 'THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL'

"At the fifth summit of the five emerging economies in Durban, South Africa, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have agreed — at least in principle — to establish the much-discussed BRICS development bank. Discussion on the finer details, meanwhile, has been left for another day. The leaders made the decision Wednesday (March 27), following a report from their respective finance ministers, whom they instructed a year ago to explore the feasibility of setting up the more...

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John Daly on March 29, 2013

Brazil, the country of thirty Berlusconis

Brazil, the country of thirty Berlusconis

This report examines all of the shortcomings of this South American giant’s media landscape It is based on fact-finding visits to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia in November 2012 The media topography of the country that is hosting the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics has barely changed in the three decades since the end of the 1964-85 military dictatorship. As well as the ten or so major companies that dominate the national media and are mainly based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, more...

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D C on March 17, 2013

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Brazil

This report is part of a series of national case studies aimed at disseminating knowledge on the current status of social protection systems in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and at discussing their main challenges in terms of realizing of the economic and social rights of the population and achieving key development goals, such as combating poverty and hunger.

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Marie Lavigne on March 15, 2013

e-Democracia

comminit.com –

e-Democracia Project in Brazil, a website launched in June 2009 by the Brazilian House of Representatives, is designed to engage citizens in the lawmaking process to achieve tangible legislative results. The main goal is to permit easier access to the decision-making process by citizens who are not associated with strong interest groups or corporations that usually lobby for access to the centre of power in Brasilia where the national government is located.

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Moushumi Biswas to Open Development Technology Alliance on March 7, 2013

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