UNESCO publication evaluates Internet development in Brazil based on Universality Indicators
Prepared from data from Cetic.br/NIC.br's ICT surveys, government, industry sectors, and interviews with key stakeholders, the report is available for download
Brazil is the first country whose Internet ecosystem has been evaluated based on the Internet Universality Indicators of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The results were published in the report “Assessing internet development in Brazil: using UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators” (in Portuguese, "Avaliando o Desenvolvimento da Internet no Brasil: aplicação dos Indicadores de Universalidade da Internet da UNESCO"). The publication inaugurates a series of UNESCO publications on the topic. The English version of the report is available for download at: https://cetic.br/publicacao/assessing-internet-development-in-brazil-using-unesco-s-internet-universality-roam-x-indicators/.
The document was prepared from data collected from different sources of information, but mainly, from surveys conducted by the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). The pilot project that collected the data published in this report was conducted by Cetic.br and gathers data from UNESCO indicators in four fundamental areas: Rights, Openness, Accessibility, and Multistakeholder Participation, as well as indicators that are transversal to these dimensions.
"With UNESCO's Indicators, we were given the opportunity to learn about the current scenario and understand future developments from the concept of Internet Universality," wrote in the publication NIC.br's president-director, Demi Getschko. NIC.br, through Cetic.br, also actively contributed with technical support since the beginning of the process of elaborating the conceptual framework and the Internet Universality Indicators, approved in 2018.
The report "Assessing internet development in Brazil: using UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators" points out that the development of the Internet environment in Brazil is strong and positive when considering the regulatory framework, which follows international standards. However, there are still challenges in areas such as access and connectivity for citizens. Access the full publication.
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