Going Digital in Brazil
Going Digital in Brazil analyses recent developments in Brazil’s digital economy, reviews policies related to digitalisation and makes recommendations to increase policy coherence in this area.
The report examines the availability and quality of communication networks and services in Brazil, as well as related policies and regulations. It also reviews trends in digital technology usage among individuals, businesses and the government, and examines policies to foster diffusion. It discusses efforts to enhance trust in the digital economy, focusing on digital security, privacy and consumer protection. It also reviews policies to promote digital innovation and examines the policy implications of emerging business models in key sectors.
The report reconsiders these policies in relation to their coherence across different domains and provides recommendations to foster synergies across government ministries, levels and institutions, based on the OECD Going Digital Integrated Policy Framework.
Also available in: Portuguese
Enhancing trust in the digital economy
Brazil is increasingly being targeted by digital security attacks. CERT.br, the private sector Brazilian National Computer Emergency Response Team (Centro de Estudos, Resposta e Tratamento de Incidentes de Segurança no Brasil) maintained by the executive branch of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação, NIC.br), received over 875 000 incident notifications in 2019, 78% of which originated from Brazil ( and ). The Brazilian Government Computer Security Incident Response Team (Centro de Tratamento e Resposta a Incidentes Cibernéticos de Governo, CTIR) also reports an increasing number of incidents (). A brief analysis of data from other sources confirms this situation. In 2018, EUROPOL found that Brazil is both a leading target and source of attacks in Latin America, and further noted that 54% of digital security attacks reported in Brazil originate from within the country (EUROPOL, 2018) According to the LexisNexis Threatmetrix (2019), Brazil is the sixth country from which attacks originate globally (in volume).
Also available in: Portuguese
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