Brazil's federal government mandates the neural-AI VLibras avatar—built by UFPB's LAVID lab—on public digital services, translating Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language in …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 22%73/100
INPE's DETER system issues near-real-time satellite alerts on forest clearing across the Amazon and three other biomes, letting IBAMA dispatch enforcement teams …
São Paulo's disability-rights secretariat embedded Hand Talk's AI avatar Hugo across all 32 subprefecture and 26 secretariat portals: 40 million Portuguese-to-Libras translations …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 6%73/100
STF's Victor AI classifies Extraordinary Appeals by 'general repercussion' theme in ~5 seconds vs 44 minutes manually, handling ~50,000 cases/year. Built with …
A Braille-cell-shaped LEGO brick system, proposed by the Danish Association of the Blind and re-proposed by Brazil's Dorina Nowill Foundation, turns Braille …
Brazil's Embrapa runs a formal four-phase technology-transfer and impact-assessment pipeline for its agricultural research. Its 2021 evaluation of 152 projects found R$18 …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Created in 1986 by Fundação CERTI as Brazil's first tech-business incubator, CELTA has graduated 118 companies generating ~800 direct jobs and R$67m/year …
TransEmpregos is Brazil's oldest free job-matching platform for transgender people, linking CVs to employers like Carrefour, IBM and Atento. Since 2013 it …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
Curitiba's IPPUC planning institute, running since 1965, now operates 'Hipervisor', a real-time cross-department data platform that helps the city anticipate flooding and …
Curitiba, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
A Brazilian public 'social organisation' co-funding pre-competitive industrial R&D one-third each from EMBRAPII, the company and the research unit, hitting a record …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 7%67/100
Brazil's first university innovation agency (est. 2003) manages UNICAMP's 1,293 active patents and 212 licensing agreements; patent filings rose 70% in 2024, …
Campinas, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%67/100
Latin America's largest corporate innovation hub (est. 2015), co-founded by Itaú Unibanco and Redpoint eventures in Vila Olímpia, São Paulo. 500+ curated …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 7%67/100
World's first jurisdictional REDD+ system (Acre State Law 2.308/2010), covering 15.4 M ha of Amazon forest; Standard Chartered-CDSA partnership to sell up …
Rio de Janeiro's flagship in-situ favela-upgrading programme (1994–2008) delivered streets, drainage and services without removing residents; a peer-reviewed evaluation found service-access gains …
Paraná's state education department runs Redação Paraná, a writing platform with 833,000+ active users; AI correction (Google technology) gives instant feedback, with …
A four-layer AI-training method, not new software, helped two Brasília (Federal District) government control units cut case-processing time up to 50%, lift …
Since 2018 Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has run Ulysses, an eight-module AI suite matching similar bills (20,000+ requests/yr), transcribing speeches, analysing comments …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%60/100
Brazil's anti-corruption watchdog CGU and Uruguay's AGESIC piloted an open-source bridge letting citizens query government open data in plain language via LLMs …