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Strengthen access to digital citizenship for indigenous people, quilombolas, riverside dwellers and extractivists in the Legal Amazon. This is the objective of Technical Cooperation Agreement No. 23/2025, signed by the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) with Rede Conexao Povos da Floresta, providing for joint actions for listening, training, data governance and carrying out studies in technology and digital communication. The document was published this Friday (12/26) on the ministrys portal.
The ministry has always had the vision of leaving no person behind in the digital transformation, our objective is to bring the facilities of a digital government to everyone, states the Secretary of Digital Government, Rogerio Mascarenhas. With this cooperation, we hope to expand access to digital citizenship in the Legal Amazon, listening to and training people, in addition to understanding how digital services are used in these locations, added the secretary.
According to Mascarenhas, the search is also planned to strengthen local leaders and by identifying opportunities for digital solutions that are more suited to the local reality. Furthermore, cooperation will generate diagnoses to support future decisions and improvements in digital government policies and practices. By placing these people at the center, we want to transform these experiences, and this cooperation paves the way for a digital government that is more attentive to the different realities of the country, he added.
For Tasso Azevedo, from the coordination committee of Rede Conexao Povos da Floresta, the agreement represents significant connectivity, bringing the Public Power closer to protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. We believe that this partnership with the Federal Governments Digital Government Secretariat has the potential to amplify the voices of forest peoples, integrating public policies and digital security for indigenous, quilombola and extractive communities, he said.
According to the established work plan, listening, research and usage testing actions will be conducted by the Digital Government Secretariat (SGD), with execution by the Public Services Quality Laboratory, LabQ. Launched in 2023, this initiative aims to offer services that meet citizens needs in the simplest, most user-friendly and sustainable way.
Forest Peoples Connection Network
The Povos da Floresta Conexao Network is an initiative that connects, via the internet, communities in protected territories in the Brazilian Amazon and strengthens safe and conscious digital inclusion, expanding access to health, education, territorial protection, culture and entrepreneurship. The proposal for meaningful connectivity seeks to make digital access truly useful in everyday life, supporting the exercise of rights and strengthening forest protection.
The network is made up of organizations and entities from civil society and the private sector and is coordinated by extractive, quilombola and indigenous organizations. The agreement with the Network was signed through the Instituto Conexao Povos da Floresta (ICPF).
