{"id":815,"date":"2008-05-08T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2008-05-08T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:47:54","slug":"free-and-open-source-software-use-and-production-by-the-brazilian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/08\/free-and-open-source-software-use-and-production-by-the-brazilian-government","title":{"rendered":"Free and Open Source Software: Use and Production by the Brazilian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

First up, I want to say, I’m truly impressed with Brazil. One day I will visit this amazing place, and spread the good word of open source with projects that are close to my heart: MySQL, OpenOffice.org, Fedora, and in due time, a lot more. This is a live-blog, from a most interesting talk, at JavaOne 2008. As I wrote<\/a> on Twitter, “Brazil, simply impresses me. Their use of open source in government, makes me think that the rest of the world has a lot to learn from them”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Free and Open Source Software: Use and Production by the Brazilian Government<\/strong>
\nRogerio Santana <rogerio.santanna@planejamento.gov.br> +55 61 313 1400, Logistics and Information Technology Secretariat
\nPlanning, Budget and Management Ministry
\nBrazilian Government<\/p>\n

Households with Internet access: 70% in the US4k household income range. 70% of households have mobile phones (even when total revenue is USD$2k). Middle and upper class are all, generally on the Internet.<\/p>\n

In 2007, 98% of Income Tax has been sent by the Internet. By 2009, there’s only going to be use of a Java application for this. About 17.5 million people filed via the Internet. Impressive.<\/p>\n

Brazil has 142k public schools – 26k are connected to the Internet now (18%), and 92% are connected at low speed, while 8% have 512kbps connections.<\/p>\n

Plan? Free Internet for schools, from 2008-2025. 1mbps for each connection, growth plans in the next 3 years.<\/p>\n

There exists Computer Reconditioning Centres (CRCs) for recycling PCs.<\/p>\n

www.eping.e.gov.br (e-PING: e-Government Interoperability Standards)
\nwww.governoelectronico.gov.br (e-MAG: e-Government Accessibility Model)<\/p>\n

Brazil has been using electronic voting since 1995. 136.8 million people voted in 2006 election. Next version of vote machines will use GNU\/Linux!<\/p>\n

Open Standards. Interoperability. Free Software. Free License. Community.<\/p>\n

e-PING: uses XML, browser compliant, they have metadata standards<\/p>\n

Many organisations of the Brazilian Government use Java as a primary development platform. Remember, Java is important because its the first that allowed even Linux users to interact with government applications.<\/p>\n

Brazilian Digital Television? Middle-ware responsible for the interactive process of digital TV also developed in Java. (Ginga is the name of the application).<\/p>\n

In education? Enrolment is done via the Internet for universities. e-Proinfo is an e-learning project that has already trained 50k students.<\/p>\n

Developing clusters and grids, with focus on high availability, load balancing, database replication, distributed mass storage, and virtualization. The government is backing this, since 2006.<\/p>\n

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