By Filipe Pacheco MARCO STEFANINI IS PRETTY WELL KNOWN for those who closely follow the developments of the IT industry in Brazil, and he was recently amongst some of the most important world leaders. In March Stefanini represented the national IT industry at the CEO Forum in Washington, DC. Also present at the White House were Dilma Rousseff, president of…

By Luke Bujarski LAST WEEK’S BLOOMBERG LATIN AMERICA INVESTING CONFERENCE in New York City was a sobering reminder of Brazil’s precarious economic balancing act hinging on foreign investment, consumption, government stimulus, and inflated commodity prices. Yet, despite mixed signals over the future macro outlook, Brazil’s IT services industry will continue to rage forward. Antonio Gil president of BRASSCOM shrugged off pragmatic…

By Filipe Pacheco, with Agência Brasil THE PROJECT “CIENCIAS SEM FRONTEIRAS“, MEANING “SCIENCE WITHOUT BORDERS” in English, and considered by president Dilma Rousseff as crucial to improving the qualification of science and tech professionals in the country through international partnerships, has a new concern: what will those young students do when they come back to Brazil? The main preoccupation is…

By Filipe Pacheco IF YOU ARE THE MANAGER OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY thinking about starting operations in Brazil, forget an office in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by palm trees, white sand beaches and the entire tropical image foreigners have of the country – they might become part of your holiday time, but not of your daily life. That is because…