Casa Brasil IBGE
Casa Brasil IBGE receives first group of participants for vacation workshop
July 09, 2024 10h26 AM | Last Updated: July 11, 2024 02h24 PM
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) inaugurated, on Monday (8), a vacation workshop at Casa Brasil IBGE, located at Palácio da Fazenda, downtown Rio de Janeiro (RJ). With the topic “Public policies public managers, members from non-governmental organizations, among others, received guidance on how to access and use the information produced by the IBGE, according to the best practices and their own academic, research and study needs.
Besides having a class about the main tools available on the IBGE website, the workshop participants received a copy of the world map with Brazil in the center of the projection, and a certificate issued by the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE).
The IBGE team presented the most updated channels of the Institute, such as the IBGE website, the Overview, the Statistical Yearbook of Brazil, the Map Portal, the IBGE System of Automatic Retrieval (SIDRA) and the Interactive Geographic Platform (PGI). Rodrigo Rego, manager for Innovation and Development, was one of the instructors. He said that “it is important for us to be in contact with the users who need our data. That way we can learn what to improve, and what we do well already. The Institute needs to disseminate information in an easy way and the people themselves will pass on that knowledge.”
The manager also assessed positively the exchange of information with participants on this first day. “Our audience here today is formed by more specialized people who know about our work. They were interested, attentive, took notes and asked a lot of questions.”
Felipe Miguel, analyst from the Coordination of Online Experience and Services (CEON), Felipe Miguel said that “the objective of the IBGE is to show these data to the population and make even more democratic the access to information. Quite often, they consider some things impossible to learn, but by using the resources, they find out the opposite.”
One of the participants in the workshop was journalist Jessé Cardoso, editor of the website “Notícias Úteis da Zona Oeste (Useful News from the Western Area). Cardoso explained why he decided to join the workshop and talked about his experience with the classes, “My objective here was to collect regional data; we have a specific site about the western area of the city of Rio de Janeiro, encompassing neighborhoods such as Bangu, Realengo and Santa Cruz. I tried to learn how to surf on the IBGE website and identify data related to the enumeration areas. I had a very positive experience here.”
The workshops “Public policies in the digital era: Mastering IBGE data” will give students, teachers, professor, public managers, members from non-governmental organizations and society in general the chance of having proper guidance on how to access and use the information produced by the IBGE, considering their own work, study or research needs. The Institute will have other two Editions, on the 15th and 22nd of July, also at Casa Brasil IBGE.
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Vacation workshop "Public Policies in the Digital Era: Mastering IBGE data”
Class: 100 participants
Days: July 15 and 22
Time: 10 am to noon
Registration: IBGE Virtual Shop: https://loja.ibge.gov.br
Learn more about Casa Brasil IBGE at: https://www.ibge.gov.br/casabrasil/
Visiting hours: Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm. For additional information on how to schedule a visit, access: https://www.ibge.gov.br/casabrasil/visitas.html
