Marcelo Thompson

Some very significant bodies of the Brazilian Government and government-owned corporations have just signed an agreement to adopt Open Document Format as their standard format for the exchange of electronic documents. While the agreement merely conveys their intention of adopting ODF, it also firms up their commitment to “plan, organize, and enable such policy in the federal government”, one official said. The announcement [...]

Many think of the Internet Governance Forum as being nothing but a multi-stakeholders monumental talk shop. Even if so, that would not be so hopeless for an area in which customs play a decisive role; an area to whose build-up the showcase of state practices and formalization of diferent levels of opinio juris very widely contribute: the area of international human rights law. Though derided as a talk [...]

Brazilian Sunday TV news program “Fantástico” showed in its last edition that a gang of supposed fraudsters would be offering their services to Brazilian politicians. The services in question would involve the manipulation of electronic voting systems to elect illegitimate candidates in the upcoming municipal suffrage.