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NEARSHORE SLIDESHOW 791x10241 Slideshow: 13 Useful Things You Probably Never Knew About Brazil By Dennis Barker.

Brazil is a nation on a mission.

The country, with the fifth largest population in the world,  is generating major momentum in the global trade and technology arena. The country’s domestic IT market is the eighth largest in the world and over 100,000 technology professionals join the nation’s workforce every year.

The rising influence of Brazil as a trading and exporting partner also brings with it a host of reasons to better understand the country’s unique culture.

If you’re hungry for more data, insight and knowledge about Brazil – then scroll on and click below – learn about cybercrime, soccer fanaticism, exports, Giselle, Teddy Roosevelt’s strange ride on an Amazonian river and a lot more!
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A TECH HUNGRY POPULATION

IT spending in Brazil will reach $114 billion in 2012, and Brazil's share of IT services will hit $13 billion, according to projections by Gartner and other analyst firms. Like the country's economy (the eighth largest in the world), the IT sector keeps cooking. Brazilians — there are approximately 192 million — own about 72 million computer terminals, which is expected to double by 2014.

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IT'S AN R&D HOTHOUSE

Brazil was responsible for 60% of all investments in research and development in Latin America, according to data from the Interamerican Development Bank. "In terms of availability of instruments to encourage innovation, Brazil probably has more than any other country in Latin America," the IDB says. One of those instruments is economic subsidies. This year, Brazil is investing 1.5% of GDP on R&D. The country has also strengthened its protections of intellectual property.

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS: AGILE BY DESIGN

When you talk to a software company that has outsourced development work to Brazil or partnered with an indigenous developer, you will often hear that they liked the fact the Brazilian team used agile methodologies. In a recent study on the effects of time-zone proximity and the Brazilian IT industry, the authors said every software team they visited was either using or moving to the agile approach.

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FACING A SHORTAGE OF IT WORKERS

Brazil employs 1.7 million people in IT. The government wants IT services exports to grow to $5 billion by 2012. Top that with two massive events — the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, requiring more IT talent. According to Brasscom, 220,000 pros are being prepared to enter the market. Is it enough?: “Brazil has a deficit of approximately 350,000 qualified IT professionals, just to address the immediate domestic demand alone,” says Robert Janssen, CEO, Outsource Brazil.

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120 DAYS TO OFFICIALLY START A BUSINESS

You might think a country that takes off for a week during Carnival - the going might be easy. But according to a study by the World Bank, Brazil ranks #129 out of 178 countries when it comes to “ease of doing business”. The Bank says it takes 120 days to start up, compared to 61.7 days in the rest of LatAm. Much of the not-easy part relates to rigid labor law, particularly those relating to restrictions on overtime, penalties for termination without cause, and the “13th month syndrome.”

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THE 3RD-SMARTEST CITY IN THE WORLD

Sao Paulo and Rio get most of the attention when it comes to IT services, but travel south and you'll come to a smaller city that some say is an outsourcer's dream — and a really smart place. Curitiba is gaining momentum as an IT/BPO hub, thanks in part to its Technopark – regions in the city that integrate and interconnect universities, IT companies, and R&D institutions. The municipal government offers incentives for larger companies to locate here, including reduced taxes.

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BRAZILIANS RULE TWITTER

Stand back, guy married to Demi Moore. The most active users of Twitter are in Brazil, at least on a per-country basis. In a recent comScore Media Metrix study of Twitter's market penetration, Brazil and Indonesia were neck and neck, with about 20% of their populations using the service. Nearshore neighbors also in the top 10: Venezuela, at 19% penetration; and both Mexico and Chile slightly more than 13%.

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BRAZILIANS ARE WORKING WHEN YOU'RE WORKING

Brazil has “time zone overlap” with nearly all its IT export clients. There's only a two-hour difference between New York and the main Brazilian cities (and London has a three-hour difference). This overlap helps facilitate “deep synchronous communications” between collaborators, according to a recent study out of American University. It also may help Brazilian providers to acquire more lucrative “unstructured tasks/projects,” the study says.

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DO NOT MESS WITH LUNCH TIME AND SOCCER

Despite that “time zone overlap,” remote clients cannot always pick up the phone and immediately talk to their colleagues in Brazil. That's because Brazilians tend to take longer lunches than Americans: as long as 2 hours, while the American custom is 30 minutes or eating at one's desk. Brazilians, more social, also prefer to take lunch as a group. According to one study, American clients “get flustered” when they call Brazil and no one from the team is at their workstation.

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IN THE BIG LEAGUES OF INTERNET CRIME

Brazil ranked number 3 overall in malicious Internet-based activity in 2009 — and number 1 in attacks by spam zombies — according to Symantec. Brazil was third in both location of malicious activity and origin of malicious activity, experts say. "Brazil has been a major source of successful malicious code that steals banking information, and some very successful malicious code that has originated from Brazil remains active.”

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT ALMOST DIED THERE

In 1914, Roosevelt went on a mission to explore the perilous River of Doubt, an Amazon tributary in Brazil's northwestern territory. T.R. and crew traveled the snaky river in dugout canoes. They lost boats in the whitewater rapids, and lost men to drowning and murder. Roosevelt became so famished and sick with a fever of 105°, he could hardly move. He admitted later that on this trip he'd never felt so close to “leaving my bones behind.”

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EXPORTING MORE THAN COFFEE AND BEEF

Fifty years ago Brazilian innovators changed the sound of music. Samba and cumbia infiltrated jazz, and then bossa nova became hot with the release of “The Girl from Ipanema." The world was introduced to singer Astrud Gilberto, who personified: very sultry but very cool. Her descendants include Oscar-nominated actress Sônia Braga, best known to international audiences for heating up the film “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and supermodel Giselle Bundchen.

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PS: OTHER FACTOIDS

• A popular rumor: Brazil has more Java programmers than any other country. Also large numbers of Cobol programmers from the mainframe era. • More than 210 public tech schools will open in 2010. • Most downloaded iPhone app last year: Sygic Mobile Brazil, the first GPS app with maps/ Portuguese voice. • The only authentic monarch in SouthAmerica: Brazil prince Dom João Henrique Maria Gabriel Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança, whose family once ruled Portugal before fleeing from Napoleon.

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What do nearshore outsourcing providers need to do better? Kirk Laughlin from Nearshore Americas explains.

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By Juan Fernando Diaz, NSAM Contributor

Obama+Meets+Colombian+President+Uribe+White+72xgCwLFIccl 300x198 COUNTRY PROFILE: The Transformation of Colombia

The US-Colombian free trade pact was the subject of a meeting in June between Colombia President Uribe and US President Obama

Over the last few decades negative publicity about disruptive rebels, drug cartels and high crime rates has slowed investment in Colombia. However, in recent years during Alvaro Uribe’s presidential  term,  security and crime  rates  have  improved  significantly and Colombia is fast becoming a major success story in the sphere of Latin American outsourcing.

Today, countries such as Brazil and Mexico are considered more dangerous and more risky. This has allowed Colombia to get back  in business and regain forward momentum. Colombia’s prospects are rising rapidly – and Uribe himself has an important role to play in proving to the world his commitment to meaningful transparency and the rule of law. This is particularly important given the recent wiretapping scandal that threatened to undermine Uribe’s credibility.

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Guatemala and Cost Competitiveness

September 15th, 2009

By Jeff Pappas, Executive VP, Arledge Partners Real Estate Group

Central America has become a hotbed for call center investment as US basedJeffreyPappas1 Guatemala and Cost Competitiveness contact centers continue their aggressive search to find the most cost competitive Spanish/English bilingual support for their clients. In English speaking countries, Central America is considered a region of the North American continent. Politically, it usually comprises seven countries – Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Though Guatemala is a developing country with the largest population in Central America of around 14 million inhabitants, the country still faces many social problems and is among the 10 poorest countries in Latin America. The distribution of income is unequally high with approximately 29% of the population living below the poverty line.
Still Guatemala has its advantages. Here are some facts:

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By Susan Arledge, President/CEO, Arledge Partners Real Estate Group

On the way to the recent IMT Contact Forum entitled “Mexico – Your Best Option,” a couple of important questionsSusanArledge21 Wage Wars: Mexico vs. LATAM Neighbors where on my mind:  Is Mexico safe and is there enough available bilingual labor?

During one of the sessions at the Forum, someone cited a recent article in a Texas paper noting that Ciudad Juárez has become the murder capital of Mexico in recent months. More than 200 people have been killed in Juárez in the first 16 days of September vying for lucrative distribution routes into Texas.

“We’d like to think this will soon be over, but this area is too important of a transit point, so it’s likely the killings will continue for a while,” said Alfredo Quijano, editor of Norte de Ciudad Juárez newspaper.

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