How many Brazilians work in the technology area in Portugal? Where do they reside? What is the age range? This is data that did not yet exist in the country, but will now be collected. The Census Tech was launched this Friday, November 7th, which aims to map the Brazilian community in the technology sector in Portugal.
The initiative is from Cais do Porto (formerly Porto Digital), in Aveiro, and was presented in the Brazil Tech Days program. The technological journey took place over three days, with more than 400 people registered, including both Brazilians coming from Brazil and Brazilians residing in Portugal, as well as Portuguese participants.
To DN Brasil, Marcela Valença, country operations manager at Cais do Porto, said that the idea arose from contacts she received when she arrived in Portugal, in July this year. “When I arrived in Portugal, I started to meet people and, with the reports that came out, many of them started looking for me wanting to talk. That’s when I had the idea of creating Census Tech, to understand where these people are, what they are doing and why we still don’t know where technology companies are in Portugal”, he explained.
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Marcela highlights that the lack of statistics in the country is a problem, which is now being sought to be resolved in this sector. The objective is to create a free contact network, capable of generating data and numbers. Both companies and freelance professionals, people outside the market or who are already employed can register. According to the Brazilian, the form is “easy to fill out” and was developed within the Cais do Porto website by the Brazilian startup Uai-fi.
Partnership with Serpro
Another highlight of the program was the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Cais do Porto and Serpro, a national intelligence company in digital government and information technology in Brazil. The document foresees the creation of joint technology initiatives to support business and internationalization.
The memo also contemplates “creating technology challenges with the aim of develop real solutions, linked to immediate needs in Brazil and abroadr, for the development of new business between the parties”. Furthermore, they agree to participate and jointly create “opportunities at international events, such as Brazil Tech Day, Web Summit and others that may be defined, with the aim of promoting business, seeking new opportunities and supporting companies participating in the program”.
According to the head of Cais do Porto, this memorandum represents a rapprochement between Brazil and Portugal in the area of technology, a topic that is already being discussed between the governments.
Another initiative launched at the event was Tech Woman in Portugal, which was attended by the platform’s creator, Brazilian Laís Xavier.
amanda.lima@dn.pt
*The journalist traveled to Aveiro at the invitation of Brazil Tech Days