The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) provided assistance to 1,483 people, gave three workshops, a conference, and launched two new products during the Meeting of New Mayors, held from February 11 to 14 in Brasília (DF). In the Meeting, which gathered more than 25 thousand attendees and 4 thousand municipalities represented throughout the three days, the stand of the IBGE received 530 mayors and hundreds of visitors who were given information and guidance on the main information channels of the Institute, in the fields of both statistics and geosciences.

There was special interest in two special products launched in the Meeting, Meu IBGE (My IBGE) and Panorama das Cidades (Cities Overview). Developed exclusively for the Meeting of New Mayors, Panorama das Cidades (cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/panorama-impresso) generates, in real time, customized reports about the municipalities, in PDF format, with indicators produced by the IBGE and other statistical and geoscientific sources, time series, graphs, comparisons with other localities and the history of each municipality.

Meu IBGE (meuibge.ibge.gov.br) is an interactive site that presents information in a light way showing one’s position in the Brazilian population. By informing their age, color or race, municipality of residence and sex, the user can find information like how many people there are in the same age bracket, the percentage of the population of the same color, among other details. Also, one can compare important indicators of municipalities, for example, literacy and access to water and sewage treatment, with those in other locations.

“Both products called the attention of visitors, mayors were very interested in seeing an overview of their municipalities; so many reports were printed that we had to replace printing ink twice. Lines were formed with mayors who wanted to use the two information stands available and a lot of people had doubts cleared about other surveys and products of the IBGE aimed at the municipal reality,”, said Lucas Braga Cunha, census analyst from the IBGE Superintendency in the Federal District, and one of the employees in charge of receiving visitors at the stand.

Gabriel Antonaccio, IBGE Superintendent in the Federal District, says "the experience reinforced the importance of cooperation, partnership and communication between areas for us to reach a positive outcome in our institution."

Conference and panel discussions

During the event, the IBGE gave three workshops, a conference and participated in panels and lectures. On Tuesday, 11, Denise Kronemberg participated in the Workshop Municipal Planning for SDG [Sustainable Development Goals], with participants of the General Secretariat for the Presidency of the Republic, Ministry of Planning and Budget, Ministry of the Cities, Brazilian Association of Municipalities and National Group of Mayors, UN Local Center 2030. In the panel, Denise Kronemberg highlighted the importance of SDG indicators for the monitoring of the 20230 Agenda in municipalities.

In the morning of Wednesday, 12, Marcio Pochmann, president of the IBGE, presented the Conference 2022 Census – Interiorization and change of the dynamic axis for small and medium municipalities, during which he showed data from the latest Census and its economic, social and environmental repercussions. “There is a movement from the economic axis of capitals and coastal cities, directed to the Atlantic Ocean, for greater dynamism inside the country, also aiming at the trade with the Pacific, This change will foster the redesign of public policies, with a focus on a population that is older, focusing on the sector of services, for example,” said Pochmann.

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The President of the IBGE also participated, in the afternoon, of the panel discussion Metropolitan Governance - a drawback to be overcome, with the participation of representatives of the institute of Applied Economics Research (IPEA), and of the Ministry of the Cities. After that, Pochmann attended the lauch of the Pact for Sustainable Development: my municipality from an SDG perspective, coordinated by the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, together with minister Márcio Macêdo, and representatives of several federal and municipal agencies. “The contribution given by the IBGE and all its qualified employees is present in platforms with one billion data and a trillion and a half possible combinations in different variables, with tools that are aggregated and available for this enterprise, My municipality from an SDG perspective. ”

Workshops

The IBGE presented, on Wednesday, the Workshop Municipal Planning, Public Statistics and Artificial Intelligence, the result of a technical cooperation between the IBGE, the Federal university of Goiás (UFG) and the State university of Campinas (Unicamp), for the development of the project Artificial Intelligence Applied to Public Policies (IAPP).

The professor from UFG, Vicente Rocha, and the coordinator general of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), Paulo Jannuzzi, gave the workshop. “We showed how the Artificial Intelligence Assistant we developed, ChatPP, jnow in operation, can be used to answer questions and present evidence for municipal management. There was a lot of interest in the courses of two formative paths we are offering, the Population Census and Municipal Planning, and Improving Municipal Planning, both instruments in this year in which the municipalities need to update the Pluriannual Plan,” Jannuzzi explained. 

Following that, the IBGE Superintendent in Pará, Rony Cordeiro, coordinated the workshop Socioeconomic indicators and Territorial Structure in the Amazon: Evaluation and Analysis. “We presented recent indicators produced by the IBGE for the Amazon region and discussed the challenges faced by new public managers in the development of public policies to improve living conditions of the resident population, thus guaranteeing sustainability and adaptability in an ever changing territory.”

In the afternoon there was another workshop, Public Policies in the Digital Era: Mastering IBGE Data,given by the coordinator of online services  and experience, Leandro Albertini Leite, who presented to the local managers and their teams tools such as the Map Portal, where one can download political, physical and school maps, Cidades@ (Cities@) which covers all the Brazilian municipalities and presents data on population, labor and income, economy, education, health, being recently updated with data from the IBGE and other official sources. Albertini closed his presentation speaking about Meu IBGE (My IBGE) and Panorama das Cidades (Cities Overview).