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BBC ranks Dilma most important woman of 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Mark Hillary

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced their list of the women who contributed the most to 2011 and Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff features as their most important woman for September 2011. The BBC said:

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Ada Lovelace and Brazil’s female IT pros

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Mark Hillary

When I was studying computer science at college in the UK, one of the things I had to learn was how to write software in the programming language Ada. It’s quite hard compared to languages such as BASIC or C, the languages … Continue reading →

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Interview: Virgílio Almeida, IT policy secretary

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Mark Hillary

Virgílio Almeida is the IT policy secretary at the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). He talked exclusively to IT Decisions about skills development, entrepreneurship and how IT is positioned in the government agenda at the World Economic Forum on … Continue reading →

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WEF: End of day report – where are the women?

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Mark Hillary

It’s the end of the second day at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro – though this was the first day that the media were allowed in, so for us it was the end of … Continue reading →

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