D2.4 Report on conference in Brazil

Project Number: 248676

Project Acronym: FORESTA Project Title: Fostering the Research Dimension of Science and

Technology Agreements

Instrument: CSA - Support Action

Thematic Priority: FP7-ICT-2009-4-9.1 International cooperation

D2.4 Report on Conference in Brazil

Due Date: 30 November 2011

Submission Date: 05 January 2012

Start Date of Project: 01/01/2010

Duration of Project: 24 months

Partner in Charge of Deliverable USP

Version Status FINAL

Dissemination Level PU

File Name: D2.4-Report on conference in BrazilFINAL

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Table of Contents

Revision and changes tracking ................................................................................................3

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..............................................................................................4

2. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................5

3. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE .......................................................................................7

3.1. Context of the Cooperation between Brazil and the European Union ........................7

3.2. Objectives of Conference ...........................................................................................7

3.3. Date and Location .......................................................................................................7

3.4. Venue ..........................................................................................................................8

3.5. Agenda Description ....................................................................................................8

3.6. Conference Promotion and Dissemination ...............................................................11

3.6.1. Public Promotion on FORESTA project website .................................................11

3.6.2. Public Promotion on Twitter ................................................................................11

3.6.3. Public Promotion on Facebook.............................................................................12

3.6.4. Public Promotion on FIRST Project website ........................................................12

3.6.5. Public Promotion on MyFire Conference .............................................................13

3.6.6. Letter of Invitation ................................................................................................13

3.6.7. Dynamic poster in two LCD screen at congress ...................................................14

3.6.8. Folder with conference Agenda ............................................................................14

3.6.9. Banner...................................................................................................................15

3.7. Press Release ............................................................................................................15

4. CONFERENCE EXECUTION .....................................................................................19

4.1. Opening Session .......................................................................................................19

4.2. Panel: The Importance of Integrated ICT Policies ...................................................19

4.3. Working Groups .......................................................................................................22

5. CONCLUSIONS .............................................................................................................27

6. ANNEXES .......................................................................................................................31

6.1. Annex 1: Agenda of Conference ..............................................................................31

6.2. Annex 2: List of Participants ....................................................................................31

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Revision and changes tracking

Date Changes Editor

10 Oct 2011 First draft USP

17 Oct 2011 Revision and feedback TESEO

7 Nov 2011 Second draft USP

30 Nov 2011 Revision and feedback All Partners

13 Dec 2011 Third draft USP

15 Dec 2011 Additional contribution ALETI

19 Dec 2011 Fourth draft USP

28 Dec 2011 Revision and feedback TESEO

30 Dec 2011 Fifth draft USP

2 Jan 2012 Final feedback to USP TESEO

5 Jan 2012 Final document USP

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

About FORESTA project

Knowledge is the key factor in the contemporary world. The information and communication

technologies (ICTs) play a major role by facilitating the systematic and strategic use of

information in order to support and facilitate knowledge capture, storage and dissemination.

ICTs in Latin America every day are increasingly growing since they are being used in

several fields. The Latin America has developed several the areas of ICT; however, there is

still a long way to go. Several projects have been launched with support from various inter-

governmental agencies, promoting the public sectors to encourage convergence of national

ICT policies. For Europe Union, Latin America is an important partner to face its future

development challenges, so in this context the FORESTA (Fostering the Research Dimension

of Science and Technology Agreements) Project, partially funded by the Seventh Framework

Programme of the European Commission promotes policy dialogue for ICT (Information and

Communication Technologies) research cooperation between the European Union and Latin

America through activities such as the organization of conferences, policy dialogue forums,

networking sessions, and the dissemination of information through the project website.

The conference gathered representatives from academia, research centres, industry and

government in different countries with the objective to enhance research cooperation on the

basis of priorities agreed at policy dialogue level.

About the policy conference

The Conference took place on September 21, 2011, at Brasília (Brazil). The main objective of

this meeting was to analyse the ICT policies and the current status of ICT research

cooperation with Europe, in order to generate a list of common R&D priorities, opportunities

and challenges following a discussion process.

The conference permitted to discuss the research agendas in ICT sector and identify the

themes of interest to Latin American countries, which are being addressed in Europe through

a multi-channel approach at R&D+i priorities.

The presence of representatives from academia, research centres, associations, industry and

government permitted to have a thorough discussion about the importance of integrated ICT

policies in the EU and LAC, where many critics and suggestions were made by the panellists.

In the working group session, the discussions on ICT fields, mainly e-inclusion, smart city

and future internet, permitted to define an SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and

Threats) analysis for each matter, which is important to understand the necessities of each

one.

Results and Conclusions

The results of conference meeting were satisfactory since it allowed a better understanding of

the needs of Latin America. During the presentations it was possible to discuss each one's

needs, thus identifying the main points of cooperation that could occur between Latin

America and the European Union.

The audience were formed by Government, Academia, Industries and associations, including

representatives from projects funded by the European Commission. The main results of the

conference was to identify the interest on Future Internet, Cloud Computing, Trusted

Network, E-Infrastructures, Networked Control, Software Technology and Digital Content

and Videogames for several areas, as Energy, Health, Environment, Smart Cities and

Equality/Social inclusion and Accessibility.

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2. INTRODUCTION The FORESTA project (Fostering the Research Dimension of Science and Technology

Agreements) funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission

promotes policy dialogue for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) research

cooperation between the European Union and Latin America through activities including the

organization of conferences, policy dialogue forums, networking sessions, and

communication and dissemination activities.

The expected impact of WP2 is to inform the research, scientific and business communities of

the overall policy framework and initiate a positive dynamic by encouraging researchers and

business to provide input to the policy dialogue and make sure that this input is received and

developed and explained within the EU-Latin American target countries policy making

process.

The present document reports the FORESTA conference origansed on September, 21st 2011

in Brasilia – Brazil, called “Fostering ICT policy dialogue between the European Union and

Brazil”. The international conference was an opportunity to discuss scientific and political

issues with the aim of exploring and proposing instruments, mechanisms and strategies to

foster collaboration in Research, Development and Innovation in ICT.

In this event, European and Latin American experts discussed common issues between

Europe and Latin America to identify themes of mutual interest and also identify the

limitations and difficulties in each country.

The city Brasília was chosen because it is the economic and political centre of the Federal

Government and the participation of government officials can be more effective, thus

enriching the debates and discussions relevant.

The conference was attended by representatives of other European Union projects in Brazil,

as: BBICE, ProIdeal+, APORTA and FIRST.

APORTA focuses on the collection of information regarding the national research

and innovation capacities and programmes within Brazil. Brazilian authorities are

made aware of the advantages of programmes accessible for EU participation. A

further objective is to disseminate this information to the widest possible number of

researchers and other stakeholders in the European Research Area. The results of

APORTA will be publicly available on its web portal and will also be presented

during information days and events in Europe

PRO-IDEAL promotes ICT dialogues and supports the ICT R&D cooperation

between Europe and Latin America through on-line tools (ICT Wiki, training

modules, partner search) and face-to-face events (ICT Days and ICT Fora).

Furthermore, PRO-IDEAL PLUS has trained "Project Angels" to create a network of

experts (“Angels”) in Latin-America, able to understand FP7 and ICT programme

rules and thus to help potential participants in EU projects.

The Brazilian Bureau for Enhancing the International Cooperation with the European

Union (Project B.Bice) was created in 2005 with the intention to both promote and

improve the cooperation between Brazil and the European Union (EU) in Science,

Technology and Innovation. The Project’s activities were developed over the

following years up until September 2007, with the aim of improving the Brazilian

participation in both the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes on Research and

Development by way of disseminating information related to the cooperation

opportunities offered by the two Programmes. Project B.Bice also helped Brazilian

research institutions and enterprises in the preparation and negotiation process of

project proposals to be submitted to the European Commission. The European

Commission approved a New Brazilian Bureau Project in October 2008, now called

BB.Bice, for a further three years period, which has since significantly expanded its

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scope of activities. The activities include maintenance of a webpage

(http://bbice.ibict.br) and distribution of a quarterly electronic newsletter in three

different languages, namely Portuguese, English and Spanish. The activities also

include development of a Competency Map of the Brazilian Institutions created to

help expand the knowledge of the Brazilian competencies in the European Union.

The initiative is a means for collaboration in the search of new partners in the creation

of research projects with Brazilian institutions. It is also within BB.Bice’s scope to

explore new means of communication to disseminate information as well as training

materials;

FIRST is a Support Action funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework

Programme in order to foster International Cooperation in the areas of Future Internet

and ICT Components and systems between Europe and Latin America. The project

aims to extend the concept of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) to Latin

America, by gathering strategic stakeholders from the different sectors included in the

Future Internet, ICT Components and systems fields into one national ICT

Technology Platform per country in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

These Latin American Technology Platforms (LATPs) will be essential counterparts

for ETPs in Latin America, facilitating an efficient networking and collaboration with

the ultimate objective of promoting joint research initiatives between European and

Latin American entities from the ICT field.

Together with participants from Government, Academia, Enterprise and Associations from

Latin America and the European Union, the discussion on ICT policies was very rich as

presented on Chapter 4: Conference Results.

The Chapter 3 presents the planning and organization of the Conference, including promotion

and dissemination activities carried out before, during and after the conference.

The Chapter 5 presents the qualitative impact of the conference and the on-going action as a

result of joint meeting of national stakeholders, Latin Americans and Europeans in this

conference.

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3. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE This chapter presents the objective of the conference and also the context of the cooperation

between Brazil and the European Union.

3.1. Context of the Cooperation between Brazil and the European

Union

The European Union - Brazil Scientific and Technological (S&T) Cooperation Agreement

was signed in 2004. This Agreement is based on the principles of mutual benefit, interchange

of information for activities that can influence the cooperation activities, reciprocal

opportunities for access to each other’s' programmes, the effective protection of intellectual

property and the equitable sharing of individual property rights.

The implementation of the S&T agreement is steered and monitored by the European Union -

Brazil Steering Committee on S&T cooperation that meets once a year. The third meeting of

this body took place in Brasilia on 26 November 2009. It was prepared through thematic

bilateral meetings in the areas of nanotechnologies, environment, health, nuclear energy,

energy, ICT, space research, food and agriculture, transport (including Aeronautics), social

sciences and mobility. The committee was successful in identifying areas and tools for

cooperation, particularly in the above areas.

Research cooperation between the Europe Union - Brazil dates back to the 3rd Research

Framework Programme (1990-1994). In January 2004 both parties signed an S&T

Cooperation Agreement, in force since November 2006, in order to strengthen and expand

cooperation in areas of mutual interest and benefit. Brazil also has bilateral S&T agreements

with several EU Member States involving joint research, institutional cooperation, student

and researcher exchange and other activities.

The operational outcomes of the 4th Joint Committee held in Brussels the 7th of December

2010 are reflected in this Road Map, which is to be considered as a rolling agenda for

enhancing cooperation between the European Union - Brazil through the development of

wider S&T partnerships and cooperative activities between the two sides, in bilateral and

multilateral settings, as well as increased Brazilian participation in the Seventh Research

Framework Programme (2007-2013) and possible participation into the European Research

Area.

3.2. Objectives of Conference

The conference intended to reinforce European Union and Latin America cooperation with a

particular focus on Brazil and to produce a set of recommendations related to future joint

research areas and ways of supporting them. In particular, the Conference aimed to:

• Identify areas of cooperation or possible pilot projects to be developed between the

Europe Union and Latin America;

• Identify possible financing instruments for cooperation activities and the difficulties

in each country;

• Present and discuss about ICT policies in Europe and Latin America and identify the

difficulties in each country.

• Produce concrete inputs to the policy dialogue, providing ICT specific themes for

cooperation and roadmaps towards their implementation that can constitute the core

of joint research cooperation in future calls in the coming years

3.3. Date and Location

The Conference took place on September 21st, 2011 at Brasília (Brazil). Brasília is the capital

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city of Brazil located in the Central-West region of the Country.

3.4. Venue

The conference was organised on: Centro de Convenções e Eventos Brasil 21 (Convention

and Events Centre Brazil 21)

Setor Hoteleiro Sul Quadra 6 Lote 1 Conjunto A - Brasília - DF

Phone: +55 61 3039-8880

www.convencoesbrasil21.com.br

Figure 1: Centro de Convenções Brasil 21

Figure 2: Meeting Room

3.5. Agenda Description

09:00 – 09:30

Registration

http://www.convencoesbrasil21.com.br/

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09:30 – 10:00

Opening Session

• Welcome and conference introduction: Prof. Moacyr Martucci Jr. – USP, FORESTA

Partner;

• Presentation of FORESTA project: Mr. Mauro Bianchi, Project Coordinator, TESEO

Sprl (Belgium)

• Mr. Paulo Lopes – Europe Union delegation in Brazil

10:00 – 12:30

Panel subject: “The importance of the integrated ICT Policies in the European Union

and Latin America with a particular focus on Brazil”

Facilitator: Prof. Moacyr Martucci Jr. - USP

• Mr. Paulo Lopes - European Union delegation in Brazil

• Mr. Edison Pérez Avella - COLCIENCIAS (Colombian funding agency)

• Ms. Joana Varon Ferraz - Fundação Getúlio Vargas

• Mr. Roberto Carlos Mayer – ASSESPRO

The panel's goal is to present the importance of having an integrated ICT policy between the

EU and Latin America, then the panellists will present from his point of view the advantages

and disadvantages of an integrated policies considering the aspects of rules, human resources,

technology, research and development. Also, the panellists should present some proposals to

integrate it.

The panel comprises representatives from the European Union and Latin America from the

government, companies and academia, enabling a broad discussion on this topic.

12:30 – 12:45

Introduction, instructions, guides to the afternoon working groups sessions

• Mr. Mauro Bianchi, TESEO Sprl (Belgium)

• Mr. Leonardo Piccinetti, EFB ltd (United Kingdom)

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch and Networking

14:00 – 16:50

Working Groups: Discussion about e-inclusion, smart city and future internet

• E-inclusion:

• Facilitator: Mr. Leonardo Piccinetti - EFB Ltd (United Kingdom).

• Prof. Antenor Ferreira - Universidade do Estado do Amazonas

• Mr. Akio Sakurai - USP

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• Smart City:

• Facilitator: Prof. Moacyr Martucci Jr. - USP

• Mr. Roberto Carlos Mayer – ASSESPRO

• Future Internet:

• Facilitator: Dr. Julian Seseña – Rose Vision (Spain)

• Ms. Joana Varon Ferraz – Fundação Getúlio Vargas

• Prof. Priscila América Solis M. Barreto - Universidade de Brasília

During the conference three working groups will be formed to discuss the following themes:

e-Inclusion, Smart City and Future Internet. The working group that brings together key

players from national ICT companies, industry associations ICT, universities and government

agencies with an interest in enhancing cooperation with Europe. Most of these key actors are

attached to the BraFip Technology Platform.

BraFip Technology Platform was created by FIRST project during 2010, and includes five

working groups representing the most interested areas in collaboration in R + D + i with

Europe.

BraFip platform participation is very important because it brings together greater National

ICT critical mass areas and otherwise meets the various associations of ICT companies with

universities and government agencies.

Results of this workshop will be presented in Conference on session “Working groups results

presentations & wrap up".

The thematic work table consists of three working groups meeting for common cooperation

interest areas between the European Union and Latin America, namely:

E-inclusion: The Brazil is developing several projects in order to reduce the digital exclusion,

through the ICT learning and dissemination can help reducing poverty and illiteracy, as well

as creating the new labour market opportunities. The challenges are the structural difficulty of

integrating ICT and digital culture to pedagogical processes.

Smart City: The current infrastructure of Brazilian cities do not meet the necessities of

population, although many cities have invested in digital cities, which was the investment in

Internet broadband access, without improving the services provided by local governments. In

this context and considering the great events that will be held in Brazil (FIFA Worldcup and

the Olympic Games), cities need to invest in smart cities, which will enhance the comfort and

quality of life of citizens and tourists.

Future Internet: According to the study of ABES, the sector currently comprises more than

8,500 companies, of which 75% are engaged in the development, distribution and marketing

of software, forming a capillary value chain with 50% of distributors. As reported last year,

94% of the market relates to micro and small enterprises. In terms of demand, in 2010 the

industry and the financial sector accounted for almost 45% of the market user. Following

there are the markets of services, commerce, government and agribusiness. But the

government was the sector that experienced the largest increase in investment, with positive

growth of more than 27% over 2009. Trends and expectations for 2011 will drive: mobility -

first notebook sales should surpass the desktop, SaaS and Cloud Computing; scan tools for

social networking and renewal of infrastructure networks capable of absorbing a greater

volume of business.

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3.6. Conference Promotion and Dissemination

FORESTA Brazil carried out several different actions to promote the conference. These

actions are detailed below

3.6.1. Public Promotion on FORESTA project website

3.6.2. Public Promotion on Twitter

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3.6.3. Public Promotion on Facebook

3.6.4. Public Promotion on FIRST Project website

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3.6.5. Public Promotion on MyFire Conference

The Concertation Workshop was also promoted at MyFire Conference in São Paulo, at

September 13th, 2011. See picture of MyFire Event below.

3.6.6. Letter of Invitation

The invitation letter to the Conference Meeting brought brief information about the event,

encouraging recipients’ to participate, as seen in the figure below. Over 1,200 invitations were

sent out. The invited audience were: Representatives from Ministries of Science and

Technology, Economics, Education and Foreign Office; National public agencies related to

ICT R&D; Universities, research centres and other institutions involved in ICT R&D and

Innovation; Industries actuating on ICT market; FORESTA project partners. More than 80

persons registered to the event (see attachment).

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Invitation Letter

3.6.7. Dynamic poster in two LCD screen at congress

A dynamic poster of the event was show in two LCD screen

3.6.8. Folder with conference Agenda

A folder containing the conference agenda was available to guide the audience on sessions

that were to be held and present their objectives. An example can be seen below.

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3.6.9. Banner

The conference meeting was two banners, one inside the meeting room and another on the

entrance.

3.7. Press Release

A Press Release about conference meeting, available at:

http://www.notecomunicacao.com.br/?modo=noticias&id=645

http://www.notecomunicacao.com.br/?modo=noticias&id=645

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Another press release was released via Cordis in Europe and also translated in Spanish and

Portuguese to be disseminated in Latin America.

English Version

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Spanish Version

Portuguese Version

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An additional press release was published at:

http://www.oriundi.net/site/oriundi.php?menu=noticiasdet&id=18275

http://www.oriundi.net/site/oriundi.php?menu=noticiasdet&id=18275

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4. CONFERENCE EXECUTION The Policy Conference “Fostering ICT Policy Dialogue between EU and Brazil” has been the

result of collaborative work from projects financed by Europe Union and Brazilian funding

agencies. The conference was an opportunity for the ICT community from Brazil, Latin

America and Europe Union.

More than 80 people registered to the event (including partners). However, due to unexpected

institutional engagement that day, some Brazilian government representatives had to cancel

their participation at the latest moments, which affected the participation record. Nonetheless

34 representatives (excluding partners) from enterprises, government and academia, including

at least 2 representatives per target Latin-American country, and, in addition to that, the

noteworthy presence of a participant from Uruguay, participated.

The audience of Conference are formed by Government, Academia, Industries and

associations, including representatives from projects funded by the European Commission, for

example: FIRST, PRO-IDEAL and from Brazilian funding agencies FINEP (Financiadora de

Estudos e Projetos) and CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e

Tecnológico).

The presentations are available at FORESTA website.

4.1. Opening Session

The Conference was opened by three important personalities, who gave welcome words to the

audience and presented the objectives of the Conference. Prof. Moacyr Martucci Jr. from

Universidade de São Paulo (USP) talked about the conference objectives and expectations.

The FORESTA project coordinator, Mr. Mauro Bianchi made the presentation about the

project FORESTA shown the goals and expectative of the project. And finally, Mr. Paulo

Lopes from the European Union Delegation in Brazil talked about the expectations of the

European Delegation in Brazil on ICT area and how the conference could help to identify

collaborative projects between Latin America and the European Union.

4.2. Panel: The Importance of Integrated ICT Policies

After the Opening Session, the Conference started with the panel “The importance of the

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integrated ICT Policies in the European Union and Latin America with a particular focus on

Brazil”.

The panel was moderated by Prof. Moacyr Martucci Jr. from Universidade de São Paulo. The

presentations started with Mr. Paulo Lopes from European Union Delegation in Brazil, who

talked about the Digital Agenda in Europe.

The main objectives of European Digital Agenda are to provide a broad contribution to

economic growth in the EU and to distribute the benefits of the digital era for all society

layers. Consequently, ICT is hugely important to achieve it.

The European Commission understood that ICT is important for Small and Medium

Enterprises (SMEs), Workers, Doctors, Patients, Researchers, Authors, Musicians,

Consumers, Elderly, Environment, Artists, Disabled and so on, through the use of seven

pillars to trigger the virtuous cycle:

• A vibrant digital single market;

• Interoperability and Standard;

• Trust and Security;

• Fast and ultrafast internet access;

• Research and Innovation;

• Enhancing digital literacy, skills and inclusion;

• ICT enabled benefits for EU society.

The European Commission is focussing on Internet for all with 100% of access in 2013 and

100% of access with more than 30Mbps in 2020. They have recognised that is necessary to

create more and better standards in Europe and ensure interoperability even in absence of

standards. Also they focus the importance on trust and security.

100% of Member States have online cross-border public services and 50% of EU citizens use

eGovernment, also the EU citizens have online eHealth.

Finally, Mr. Paulo Lopes presented about the importance of cooperation with Latin America

and quoted some projects supported by Europe Commission with Latin America, such as:

• eLAC Action Plan – Policy dialogue

• REGULATEL – Dialogue between telecom regulatory authorities

• Research cooperation – RedClara and 7th EU Framework Programme

• MERCOSUR Digital and MERCOSUR Audio-visual

• Annual EU-Brazil Information Society Dialogue

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The second speaker was Mr. Edison Pérez Avella from COLCIENCIAS which is the entity

responsible for Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia. Mr. Edison presented the

structure of Colombia showing a low level access on Internet around 5,6 per 100 habitants for

fixed and 2,6 per 100 habitants for mobile, but a 100% of penetration on cell phone. Mr.

Pérez pointed out also the low penetration of computers and Internet on Micro enterprises less

than 13%.

Like other Latin America countries, Colombia has the necessity of more employment, more

security and less poverty. Therefore, Colombia launched a National Plan for ICT called

“VIVE DIGITAL” for 2010 and 2014, to address these points.

It is important to mention that the VIVE DIGITAL Plan has the sustainability on four pillars,

as presented on the figure:

Figure 3: National Plan of ICT – “Plan Vive Digital”

The Colombia Government has the intention to invest in the following main points:

• Consolidate NSST&I (National Policy);

• Increase and linking human capital for Research, Development and Innovation;

• Promoting Knowledge and Innovation.

The third speaker was Ms. Joana Varon from Fundação Getúlio Vargas who presented the

PAC for infrastructure (Plan for Accelerating Growth) and PACTI (Action Plan in Science,

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Technology and Innovation). The investment of PAC was US$ 25bi from 2007-2010, 63 to 80

thousand scholarships and an investments in R&D private sector around US$ 5bi from 2006 –

2009. In Brazil, there is another plan called “Brasil Maior” with reduces taxes over payroll for

IT industries and goal to extend broadband to 40 million households, but the increase of

investment does not represent more innovative productive structure.

The fourth speaker was Mr. Roberto Carlos Mayer who represents the ASSESPRO which is

an association that represents software companies in Brazil; he is also the president of ALETI

(Associación Lationamericana de Entidades de Tecnologia de la información). Mr. Roberto

said that Brazil has a great market on ICT (around 15,01 billions of dollars), but there is some

area without investments in ICT, like: Financing, Research and Development in SMEs,

Quality of Service in Human Resource and so on.

Mr. Roberto stressed out that Brazil has not a digital agenda with integrated local action that

can help to improve the following difficulties that the country presents:

• Lack of human resource;

• High taxes;

• Lack of investments on R&D for SMEs.

All the presentations permitted to identify several opportunities in Brazil and also Latin

America.

4.3. Working Groups

Before the lunch time, Mr. Leonardo Piccinetti and Mr. Mauro Biachi presented the

instructions to the working groups session.

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The working groups discussed during two hours about three themes: E-inclusion, Smart City

and Future Internet. After the discussion the following results were presented:

Smart City

Smart City is an important theme for Brazil, due to lack of infrastructure and the large events

(world cup and Olympic) that will be host in 2014 and 2016. Then the group presented the

following themes to be addressed in Brazil:

• Ubiquous communications;

• Services to citizens

• Energy and Environment

• Public Governance

• Technologies

• Policy

The participants of working group were:

• Moacyr Martucci Jr, USP

• Roberto Mayer, ASSESPRO

• Joana Varon, FGV

• Augusto Antonellini, TIM

• Carlos Alberto Leitão,

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• José Gonçalves.

E-inclusion

The e-inclusion group identified the following strengths:

• Natural Resources

• Big Population / Big Target Groups

• Strong Cultural Heritage

• For Uruguay: Internet as public good – one lap top per child – Broad band for all

But, several weaknesses were identified:

• Weak educational skills

• Weak involvement of local communities

• Regulatory aspects related to cultural diversity

• Lack of Expertise – Training programmes are not sustainable

• Fragmentation of programmes – Low educational impact

• Lack of coordination of funding instruments / overlapping at state/federal level

• Low density population in large parts of the territory

• Accessibility

• Lack of entrepreneurship

• Elderly people not a target priority group

• Costs of technology facilities

Therefore, several opportunities in this theme:

• New educational technologies

• Reinforce PhDs, Mobility and Networking schemes

• Social Media and Mobile Technologies used as learning tool

• New access to broadband infrastructures

• ICT as international vehicle – improvement of language skills

• Approximation of government/research/social level

• Environmental Aspects

• Innovation Aspects

• Population is keep to approximate to technologies

• Mobile technologies are a useful vehicle to reach vulnerable groups

• Open source can be a challenge for software

However, the following threats need to be discussed:

• Social media is also a threat if not used in a way focussed to education

• Transparency/Lack of Trust/Corruption

• Social risks

• Environmental impacts

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• Leonardo Piccinetti, EFB Ltd

• Elisa Natola, EFB Ltd

• Juan Pablo Garcia, AGESIC, Uruguay

• Antenor Ferreira, UEA

• Akio Sakurai, USP

• Cecilia Matsumura, USP

Future Internet

The working group for Future Internet identified the following SWOT:

Strengths Weakness

ThreatsOpportunities

• Impact

• Poor current infrastructure

• Low entry barriers

• Standardization IPv4, IPv6

• Research groups

• Difficulties to get investments

• No good data roaming

agreements

• Fragmentations of Initiatives

• Large Competition

• Fast Evolution

• A sector crowded of large

industries

• Faster adoption of technologies

• New niches for innovative services

• Flexible / adaptable

implementation

• Applicability for many environment

and scenarios: health,

transportation, energy, tourism,

others leading to SMART

CITIES

• Improve cooperation academia

and industry

The group concluded that there are many challenges, among them:

• Social inclusion

• Social media

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• Security

• Protection to users

• Risk of digital divide

• Training and education

• Content and search engines

• User empowerment

• IPv6 wide adoption

• FI in emergency world

• FI in: health, transport, energy improvement

• Sharing deployment experiences

• New business models to be develop

• Co-creation opportunities

• Living labs

Also, the experience of the European Union and Brazil in Joint Call 7 should be extended to

other interested Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico) and

specific announcements should be made for the upcoming PPP-FI Call wish addresses SMEs

and Application Scenarios, which Latin American researches can participate.


• Julián Seseña, ROSE Vision, Spain, Facilitator social inclusion

• Mrs Yenny Garcia, CINTEL, Colombia

• Hector Torres, UTEM, Chile

• Hugo Dorney, UTEM, Chile

• Uriel Cukierman, University of Palermo, Argentina

• Tatiana Tosi, Plugged Research, Brazil

• Marco Mancini, Telecom Italia, Italy

• Priscilla Solis Barreto, University of Brasilia, Brazil

• Eduardo Ohayan, Softex, Brazil

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5. CONCLUSIONS

The International Conference: Fostering ICT Policy Dialogue between EU and Brazil has

allowed to analyse the state of the art of the cooperation in ICT between the European Union

and Latin America. The Conference has allowed identifying potential benefits of Latin

American and Caribbean in the European financing instruments.

The Conference has allowed knowing the different opportunities for collaboration in the field

of ICT, from the different EU funding instruments, as well as the success cases presented,

which provided insights from a practical perspective the impact and scope for researchers and

companies that participate in FP7.

The results that working groups on Future Internet, Smart Cities and e-Inclusion have

obtained on issues of common interest. The results of the working groups will become an

important input to another conferences and new calls, so the results of the Conference have

been important for enhancing effective collaboration in the ICT field between EU-LA.

The Conference Meeting had two main components (debate and brokerage) and discuss

around specific theme at Joint Working Group meetings. The debate was carried out in the

morning with one moderator and four high profile speeches on the theme “The importance of

the integrated ICT Policies in the Europe Union and Latin America with a particular focus on

Brazil”. The brokerage component was carried out in the afternoon with one moderator per

theme (Future Internet, Smart Cities and e-Inclusion) and at least three participants. The

networking activities were facilitated and supported by project staff to channel discussion on

potential cooperation under the right objectives of the ICT work programme in topics

matching with the European Union priorities.

Brazil has more than 10 years of successful participation in EU’s Research Framework

Programmes (FP) raising more than 7 million of euros. In FP7, 35 Brazilian organizations

have already become partners in projects funded under EU’s ICT Research & Development

and infrastructure programmes. Also, in 2010 there was a coordinated call for proposals EU-

BR. The call is also an important step forward with respect to the expansion of EU-BR

connectivity for scientific and technological cooperation. The call bring on the results of the

workshop "EU-Brazil collaboration in the ICT field", which took place in São Paulo on 8-9

September 2009 with an audience of over 200 participants. The Brazilian government

announced goals and investments in ICT to prepare the country for the world cup (2014) and

Olympic Games (2016) with open platforms and local contribution with international quality

standards.

In 2011 the Brazilian government announced the program “Science without Borders” to

promote the consolidation and expansion of science, technology and innovation in Brazil by

means of international exchange and mobility. The strategy envisioned aims to increase the

presence of students, scientists and industry personnel from Brazil in international institutions

of excellence, to encourage young talents and highly qualified researchers from abroad to

work with local investigators in joint projects, contributing to the capacitation of human

resources and promoting the return of Brazilian scientists working overseas, and induce the

internationalization of universities and research centres in Brazil by encouraging the

establishment of international partnerships and a meaningful review of their internal

procedures in order to make the interaction with foreign partners feasible.

On the working groups was identified several potential projects to solve the Latin America

problems, and a summary SWOT for the all themes are:

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Smart Cities

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The conclusions were the following:

The experience of EU-BR in Joint Call 7 should be extended to other interested Latin

American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico);

Specific announcements should be made for the upcoming PPP-FI Call wish

addresses SMEs and Application Scenarios, which Latin American researches can

participate;

The growth of Brazilian economy and the major events that will happen in 2014

(World Cup) and 2016 (Olympic Games) solicit investments in various segments

such as transportation, logistics, accommodation, etc. The current infrastructure does

not meet the demand of the population, and it will be very hard to meet the needs of

events, so in the coming years the country will undergo a significant transformation,

mainly in construction and ICT. Although Brazil is a pioneer in e-government

solutions (such as electronic voting, electronic fee collection, etc.), the country suffers

from serious lack of services over Internet.

In Brazil, the social inequality has been a business card to the world, it is one of the

most unequal countries. According to UN data, in 2005, Brazil was the 8th most

unequal nation in the world. The Gini index, which measures income inequality,

reported in 2009 that the Brazil fell from 0.58 to 0.52 (the closer to 1, the greater the

inequality), but this is still striking. So there are many opportunities in this area, as

identified in the SWOT;

Several policies on security matter were developed from 2003 to stem the steep

growth of the deadly violence that had been raging since 1980 without interruption.

The Brazilian numbers are still extremely high, both when comparing the indicators

with other countries in the world and at perception and fear of population about their

own insecurity. So there are several opportunities on e-inclusion and security (smart

city) in order to reduce these indicators;

The chaotic traffic in major cities of Brazil, besides the lack of quality on public

transportation and aggravated by violence in traffic that grows significantly each year,

indicates the need to make use of technology to streamline and improve this situation

by creating smart cities, particularly with investments in ITS (Intelligent

Transportation Systems);

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A study conducted by Nielsen points out that Brazil is the most wired country in

social networks, with membership of 86% of users on a monthly average of five

hours spent in this type of site. However, in number of hours spent online, the leading

country is Australia, with an average of 7 hours and 20 minutes in April of 2010 1.

The forecast also says that 22% of time spent on the Internet every month is devoted

to Twitter, comments, blogs, sharing and social networking sites. More than 75% of

consumers go online social networks or blogs, which represents a 24% increase over

last year. So there are several opportunities on this area.

Last, but not least, the conference served to endorse the high interest among European

and Brazilian researchers who wish to cooperate on ICT research. A number of key

elements were drawn for future joint EU-Brazil calls:

o Cloud Computing: search on applications of relevance to solve grand

challenges, by using distributed resources. Elements for research can be:

virtualization, software engineering, management of large workflows,

management and protection of huge datasets, having in mind standardization

opportunities

o Sustainable technologies for a Smarter Society: search on technologies

components and devices for sustainable ICT solutions (e.g. green ICT, smart

lighting, complex and control systems, nano-electronics, micro-systems )

designed to offer robust and sustainable solutions in various application

domains (energy, transport, health care, etc.) with high societal impact.

o Smart services and applications for a Smarter Society. Sear to

interoperable infrastructures exploiting new trends on future internet and

open data addressing interoperability aspects and further develop smart open

service experimental platforms designed to increase the experience of living

together (e.g. in the context of smart cities)..

o Hybrid broadcast-broadband TV applications and services: search the

development of hybrid broadcast-broadband TV applications and services to

address new generation of TV applications. Although the TV broadcast

transmission standards are different in Brazil and Europe, this topic offers an

opportunity to foster the development of intuitively useable and attractive

new services, seamlessly connecting broadcast and broadband while enabling

new business models.

1 http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/752214-com-86-dos-internautas-brasil-lidera-redes-sociais-e-

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6. ANNEXES

6.1. Annex 1: Agenda of Conference

6.2. Annex 2: List of Participants

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Documents

D2.4 Report on conference in Brazil