In Ceará, Triple Forum discusses strategic topics with BRICS representatives
June 03, 2025 05h59 PM | Last Updated: June 05, 2025 01h09 AM
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in cooperation with Ceará State Government and support from the United Nations Development Program (PNUD) will carry out, from June 11 to 13, the Triple International Forum on Global South Governance, in Fortaleza, at Ceará Events Center (Av. Washington Soares, 999) .
17th Meeting of heads of BRICS National Statistical Offices
The representatives of BRICS in the events are Marcio Pochmann; Cimar Azeredo Pereira; Andrea Diniz da Silva, on behalf of the IBGE, besides directors, coordinators and civil servants from the Institute. On behalf of Russia, the representatives are Sergei Egorenko and Vladimir Nekrasov and Saurabh Garg, Secretary; from India, Puja Singh Mandol, S. C. Malik and Shobha Sharma.
China will be represented by Mao Shengyong; Zheng Xuegong, Yu Qiumei and Jin Yu. From South Africa, Ashwell Jenneker will come. On behalf of Egypt, the participants are Akram Ahmed Elgouhary; Rana Mohamed Salaheldin and Shaymaa Wael Rabie.
The United Arab Emirates will send Hanan Ahli, Mohamed Hassan and Amna Al Abdulla. Muluken Kere and Fekade Asrat will represent Ethiopia. On behalf of Indonesia, Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, M. Nashrul Wajdi. Ketut Krisna and M. Lutfi Hakim Danang Jaya will be attending the event.
Digital Age Indicators; production of Digital Age indicators for BRICS; observatory of national experiences in economic development; reduction of poverty and mintigation of climate changes; and International Training Center will be some the topics discussed in the meeting.
More about the Triple Forum
From June 11 to 13, Fortaleza will receive a big number of representatives from statistical offices in the Global South, among which the following confirmed delegations: Angola, South Africa, Colombia, China, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mozambique, Russia and Uruguay.
Besides the official delegations, the Triple Forum will receive participants from more than 30 countries! And more than 100 speakers!
- The Forum will gather, in Fortaleza, from June 11 to 13, participants of BRICS, Mercosur and CPLP, in a year of debates about COP 30 in Brazil, which will include countries in the Amazon biome.
- Registration for face-to-face participation in the Triple Forum is available for authorities, public and private managers, scholars, researchers, professionals and students, besides civil society entities.
- Besides thematic panel sessions, the Triple Forum will offer the technology workshop: "Public policies in the digital age: Mastering IBGE data."
- International panel sessions will be translated. All participants will get certificates issued by the IBGE.
Objectives
The Triple Forum has the objective of organizing a technical debate (face-to-face and remote) with the opportunity of gathering the heads of National Statistical Offices, authorities, representatives, public and private managers, universities, entities of civil society, young researchers, students, among others, around challenges posed to the International Governance in the Digital Age and impacts on the economies of the Global South.
In addition, it is worth pointing out that, in 2025, Brazil presides BRICS and that Mercosur has the IBGE as Brazilian representative the of statistical offices in these countries. And Brazil will have a special agenda dedicated to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.
These are three strategic forums for the advance of proposals and actions of new sovereign indicators and for reflection upon essential topics in development and sustainability, in the year of COP 30 - 30th UN Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties) in Brazil, which will have participation of countries in the Amazon biome.
Service
The detailed schedule is available on the Triple Forum website, on the IBGE portal, with free registration (on the Internet only) for all participants in Brazil and abroad.
- The number of participants is limited. Selection will be based on the order of registration.
- All participants will get certificates
- Free registration up to June 8. For additional information, send an e-mail to eventos@ibge.gov.br.
