E-Government: Brazil in Third
Global Forum, Naples, Italy, 12-17 March 2001   
Delegations
from the Federal Government, State of Bahia, State of
Rio de Janeiro, and City of Rio de Janeiro participated in the
Third
Global Forum - Fostering democracy and development through e-government in
Naples, Italy, in March, 2001. Brazil had hosted the Second Global Forum
in Brasília in May of 2000.
Peter Knight has been developing a project provisionally entitled Rio de
Janeiro: Intelligent City, Intelligent State, within which e-government
would play an important role, and attended both the Second and Third
Global Forums.
Ceres
Prates Alves and Peter Knight spoke on Brazilian e-government programs
at the seminars held 12-14 March, prior to the Forum itself, and Pedro
Pinto Lima de Farias and Solon Lemos Pinto addressed the Plenary and one
of the workshops held during the Forum on 15-17 March. On
this page are some photos of the events and participants, and links to
the formal remarks
and presentations by Ceres Prates Alves
on e-Government
– Realizing
the Benefits
of Information Technologies and
Improving Public Services Delivery,
Pedro Pinto Lima de Farias, on Electronic
Government: The Brazilian Policy
and Solon Lemos Pinto on The Electronic Government
Policy in Brazil. Fernando Peregrino also prepared a presentation on the
state of Rio de Janeiro's e-Government Initiatives. Peter Knight's
presentation was extemporaneous, at a seminar which had been rescheduled
prior for prior to the arrival of the Brazilian federal government
delegation, with a brief description of the
Brazilian and some state programs, and a guided navigation of the
official federal government portal.
You can also visit the sites of the Rio
de Janeiro state government, the Rio de Janeiro city
government, and
the Bahia state government.
 Pedro
César Lima de Farias,
Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management
speaks to the Plenary Session on 15 March,
filling in for Minister Chief of Staff of the Presidency, Pedro Pullen Parente, who
was unable to attend.
The delegations
Federal
Government
-
Pedro
César Lima de Farias, Deputy General Secretary, Ministry of
Planning, Budget, and Management
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Ceres
Prates Alves, Secretary for Management, Ministry of Planning, Budget
and Management
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Solon
Lemos Pinto, Secretary for Logistics and Information Technology,
Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management
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Regina
Silvia Vieira Monteiro Pacheco, President, National School for
Public Administration
State
of Bahia
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Petrônio
Lerche Vieira, Secretary of Administration
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Jorge
Calmon Moniz de Bittencourt Filho, Chief Executive Officer, State of
Bahia Information Techonology Agency (PRODEB)
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Mario
Jorge Gordilho, Development and Exchange Director, Center for
Modernization and Development of Public Administration, Fundação Luis
Eduardo Magalhães
State
of Rio de Janeiro
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Fernando
Peregrino, President, Rio de Janeiro State Center of Data
Processing, State Secretariat of Administration and Reorganization
City
of Rio de Janeiro
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Ágata
Messina Pio Borges de Castro, Municipal Secretary for Press
Relations
-
Leila
Castanheira Garrido Alves, Municipal Secretary for Special Studies
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Peter
T. Knight, Advisor to the Mayor
Brazilian
federal government Speakers delivering their presentations
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Solon
Lemos Pinto speaks to a Forum workshop
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Ceres
Prates Alves addresses a pre-Forum seminar
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Ceres
Prates Alves addresses the closing plenary of the Third Global Forum
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Jorge
Calmon makes the Napoli newspapers
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See what they had to
say!
Below
are some pictures taken during the seminars and the Forum itself.
Jorge
Calmon, Petrônio Lerch of Bahia, and Peter Knight of Rio de
Janieiro at a Pre-Forum Seminar |
Leila
Castanheira and Ágata Messina, members of the Mayor's cabinet,
Rio de Janeiro |
Solon
Lemos Pinto explains Brazilian e-gov finances to Robbie Kamerschen
and Coenraad van der Poel of EzGov |
Petrônio
Lerch, Jorge Calmon of Bahia, and Fernando Peregrino of Rio de
Janeiro |
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Mario Gordilho of Bahia in a pre-Forum seminar |
Fernando
Peregrino and Peter Knight |
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Castello dÓvo, site of the pre-Forum
Seminars, by night
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Church in front of Palazzo Reale, site of the
Forum, by night |
Farewell dinner for delegations from Rio de
Janeiro city and state and Bahia
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Farewell
dinner of delegations from Rio de Janeiro city and state and Bahia |
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