Smart School Nutrition (Alimentação Escolar Inteligente - AEI) is a web application and platform that supports school to avoid food waste and contributes to a balanced school nutrition through its intelligent menu creation and food stock management assistant. According to Brazil without Hunger (Brasil sem Fome), there are 33 million families suffering from hunger and 125 million living with food insecurity. This is happening in a context where one third of the world's food is being wasted…
Country: Brazil
Sandbox.Rio is the first controlled experimental environment in a Brazilian capital to test innovative solutions that do not fit into the pre-existing regulatory scenario. Based on the tests, information is collected that helps the City of Rio understand the innovations and the accompanying receptive regulatory framework that would be needed to adhere to new technologies. In addition, the generated database helps the design of public policies in Rio, which is established as a model smart city in…
The Sanitation Regulatory Agency of the State of Bahia (Agência Reguladora de Saneamento do Estado da Bahia - AGERSA) is responsible for overseeing the provision of public basic sanitation services in 366 municipalities. With the aim of keeping the team safe, optimizing the inspection action, making the inspection time more cost effective, as well as making the diagnoses more complete, the use of drones was incorporated in the field inspections. Using Drones enhances the safety of the technical…
The Secretariat for Management - SEGES (Secretaria de Gestão) provides an inter-institutional cooperation environment for the implementation of the TransformaGov.BR Programme (Programa TransformaGov.BR) through the creation of a collaborative network in the states. The TransformaGov.BR Network brings together representatives of agencies and entities that have units outside Brasília with the objective of promoting the exchange of experiences, leveling governance and management practices and…
LA-BORA! gov arose from the need to improve the well-being and engagement of public servants. Created in December 2019, by public servants themselves, it is the first government innovation laboratory focused on improving public servant experience. It is a learning and innovation space with the purpose of supporting the creation of innovative solutions in people management, bringing civil servants closer to citizens and supporting leaders to work with an empathetic view of reality and a focus on…
Young Entrepreneurship Mentors is an education project to disseminate the culture of innovative and impact entrepreneurship. It aims to acheive this through agile methodologies that empower students from integrated High Schools in the Federal Network of Science and Technology Education to undertake sustainable solutions for their community through science, technology, and innovation.
The Acolhe Programme offers private network accommodation for women in situations of violence in more than 230 municipalities in Brazil in partnership with municipal networks for confronting violence. In addition to offering reception, the programme acts on the municipality's referral flow by demanding a public response to the problem and offering qualification.
The pandemic has caused a significant increase in amount of people living on the street, who often have no documents and makes access to justice difficult. Pop Rua Jud brought together justice organisms and other public agencies in the same place to prevent citizens from being referred from one public agency to another, without solving their problem. It was innovative in that it brought together almost 50 federal, state and municipal public institutions, as well as civil society organisations,…
CopiCola tackles the problem of knowledge loss in the public sector by investing in the registration of initiatives that can inspire civil servants, facilitate processes and reduce risks. The programme identifies, records and disseminates innovative practices with the potential to be adopted in different public management contexts. Knowledge is passed from civil servant to civil servant, facilitating the connection between actors and enhancing learning from the cases recorded.
Cariocas Programmers (Programadores Cariocas) is an initative developed by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall (Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro) based on a study that found that there is a deficit of 24,000 vacancies per year in the technology sector. Thus, the initiative aims to train and qualify young people from marginalised backgrounds (in particular refugees, black, women and transgender people) in the area of programming.