E-mail as an Enabling Technology in Brazil: The CNPq/ProTeM-CC Experience

Development of a research project in Computer Science, integrating a considerable number of research institutions and about 1200 individual researchers all over a country with big geographical extension and scarce research funding such as Brazil, is a complex task. The communication technology is an important factor in this case to maintain the expenses under control and assure the participation of the geographically dispersed researchers. This paper describes the (social) influence of the e-mail system, supported by RNP - National Research Network - as a tool for distributed coordination. The ProTeM-CC Project - Thematical Multiinstitutional Project in Computer Science - is an effort to change radically the computer research, bootstrapping competence transfers and integration of activities and groups. One of the consequences of this project is the shift of decision power from a centralized structure to a community of distributed researchers. Keyword Codes: K.6.1; K.5.2; H.4.3

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: IFIP
• Authors: José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Norberto Hoppen
• Keywords: Big Geographical Extension, Computer Science, IFIP 1994, Programming Languages, Scarce Research Funding