IBGE participates in data management seminar at Unicamp, in Campinas (SP) Campinas (SP) (2)
May 24, 2024 04h40 PM | Last Updated: May 24, 2024 07h48 PM
The president of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Marcio Pochmann, participated, on Thursday (23), in the Seminar Sustainability in Universities: Management and Indicators, held at the Convention Center of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).
The objective of the event was to bring together national representations about the topic, in order to discuss environmental issues concerning universities, the organizational structure of sustainable management in universities, fields of work, sustainability indicators, data and storage of information on sustainability, georeferencing and geotechnologies applied to sustainability actions, management and planning in universities.
Marcio Pochmann also mentioned climate tragedies as the one currently affecting Rio Grande do Sul, in order to reinforce the need of creating the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED) and then regain data sovereignty. “Our country is not data sovereign today. We depend on social media, big techs, companies that are no Brazilian and are forced by the laws of their countries of origin to share our data.”/p>
Marcio Pochmann also mentioned climate tragedies as the one currently affecting Rio Grande do Sul, in order to reinforce the need of creating the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED) and then regain data sovereignty. “Our country is not data sovereign today. We depend on social media, big techs, companies that are no Brazilian and are forced by the laws of their countries of origin to share our data.”
During his speech, Pochmann acknowledged that the IBGE model in relation to surveys and statistics needs to be reconsidered and adapted to current times. “We need this internal consideration, but also in a dialogue with society, producers and consumers of public and private data. We ask ourselves: is what we produce adequate, and do we produce that the proper way? he asked and invited participants to join the National Conference of Data Producers and Users – National Sovereignty in Geosciences, Statistics and Data, of the CONFEST/CONFEGE series, which will gather producers and users of data in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), between July 29 and August 2, 2024, to discuss risks and opportunities for Brazil in the Digital Era.
"We have to recover the view shared by those Brazilians who created the IBGE in the 1930s’ to gather all the official data in the country. The integration of federal data, for example, to be used by the government to combine data on employment and on education, for example.”
At the end of his speech, the president of the IBGE mentioned the Dialogues project and the attempt to make IBGE civil servants and professionals prepared for current times. “We must be aware of the role we might have in a context of data sovereignty. The IBGE must be adapted to this new reality.”
