📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC), alongside other institutions, authorities and leaders in education, is holding an immersion in Bangalore, India, until Friday, December 5th, to learn about Digital Public Infrastructure (IPD) initiatives. The objective is to understand the Indian digital ecosystem, today a global reference, and identify adaptable solutions to accelerate the digital transformation of Brazilian public education.
Topics such as technological integration, digital security, data governance, inclusion and interoperability between systems will be discussed. The program includes technical visits to schools, meetings with Indian authorities to learn about Indias educational system, analysis of data governance policies and practices, as well as case studies at different levels of education. The mission seeks to identify solutions that can be adapted to the Brazilian context, such as enrollment systems, school attendance monitoring and analysis of learning results.
The use of public and open digital technologies and data integration tools paves the way to guarantee students rights and have a more innovative, inclusive and connected educational system at all levels of government. It is a collaborative work that demands the participation of municipal and state governments, the MEC and the entire society, explained Evanio Antonio Araujo Junior, Secretary of Information Management, Innovation and Evaluation of Educational Policies at the MEC.
In addition to representatives from the ministry, the Brazilian mission includes members of the Civil House; the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI); the National Council of Education Secretaries (Consed); the National Council of Capital Education Secretaries (Consec); and the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (Undime), as well as experts from the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal) and representatives of civil society. The trip is carried out by MGI and MEC in partnership with the Lemann Foundation, MegaEdu and the Center for Open Societal Systems (COSS).
