USTDA Promotes IT Modernization in Brazil
May 20, 2015
(USTDA)
Aracaju, Brazil – Today, the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency awarded a grant to the
Empresa Sergipana de Tecnologia da Informação
(Sergipe State Information Technology Company,
or EMGETIS). The grant will provide technical
assistance to help the state-owned entity
develop a roadmap to expand its broadband
network and modernize an existing data center.
“This project builds upon USTDA’s recent
efforts to support information technology
modernization activities in Brazil,” said USTDA
Regional Director Nathan D. Younge. “It
demonstrates how our countries’ governments and
industry are working together to increase
internet access and improve IT operations.”
Regional Director Younge, along with Mr.
Belivaldo Chagas Silva, Vice Governor of the
State of Sergipe, and Mr. João Augusto Gama,
Planning Secretary, witnessed the signing of
the grant by the U.S. Consul General in Recife,
Richard Reiter, and Mr. Ezio Prata Faro,
President of EMGETIS.
The activity will develop a plan to expand the
state’s existing hybrid fiber and wireless
broadband network in order to provide
connectivity and e-government services
throughout the state of Sergipe in northeast
Brazil. The technical assistance will include
the development of fundamental design
requirements, budget and implementation plans
for the modernization of the state’s existing
data center. It will also develop a strategy
and procedures to ensure the preservation of
essential services during a potential cyber
attack or natural disaster.
The opportunity to conduct the USTDA-funded
technical assistance will be competed on the
Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website.
A link to the FBO announcement will be posted
to USTDA’s website at www.ustda.gov. Interested
U.S. firms should submit proposals according to
the instructions in the FBO announcement.
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