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              28 Jul 1992 21:15:00 GMT from <0004143837@MCIMAIL.COM>

In case anyone is interested, here is part of a newsletter from BRAZIL,
containing a report on the recent computer show in Rio. Brazil first tried
to develop its own "hot house" computer industry. It is now solidly in the
mainstream of computer developments. The numbers below give one cause to
pause.

- Sam Lanfranco, DKProj, York University, lanfran@vm1.yorku.ca
************************** NIBNews *************************
Vol. 1 - No. 2                                    July 1992
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   A Monthly Electronic Bulletin about Medical Informatics
       News from the Center for Biomedical Informatics
      State University of Campinas, Campinas SP - Brazil

            Editor: Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
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Tel. +55 192 397130  Fax. +55 192 394717   Tlx. +55 19 1150
E-mail: SABBATINI@BRUC.BITNET or SABBATINI@CCVAX.UNICAMP.BR
Address: P.O. Box 6005, Campinas, SP 13081 - BRAZIL
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                THE LARGEST COMPUTER SHOW EVER
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Last week  (21-24 July 1992), the mammoth computer fair and technical
exhibit "National Software Fair" was held in the city of Sao Paulo,
Brazil. FENASOFT, how it is called, is already the second biggest
event of its kind in the world (after CeBIT, in Hannover, Germany),
which attests to the fact that Brazil is the seventh largest
market for computer products and services in the world.

The numbers are mind-boggling. The exhibit took place in the
huge Sao Paulo Convention Center, with an area of 45,000 square
meters, taken by about 600 exhibitors, among which 104 from other
countries. Around six hundred thousand (yes, 600,000) visitors
passed through the gates in four days. The total value of business
deals elicited by the fair was reported to be US$ 1 billion
(which is around 10 % of the estimated Brazilian market in a single
year). Each visitor was issued a magnetic ID card to control
access and record visits to the stands. An internal computer network
with ca. 400 terminals equipped with touch-sensitive screens and
card-readers was spread about the fair grounds.

The Sixth International Conference on Software Technology, Information
Management and Telematics was held in parallel, with 176 separate
events in hypermedia, Windows, software standards, new technologies,
neurocomputing, and many others; which was attended to by ca.
2,500 persons.

The Brazilian Society of Health Informatics has promoted, during
this Congress, a three-day Symposium on Medical Informatics, which
was organized and chaired by Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini (State
University of Campinas). It was attended to by ca. 70 participants.

Dr. Maximiano Goncalves Filho, FENASOFT's president, reports that
approximately 90 % of the exhibit space for the 1993 edition has
already been sold. The Symposium on Medical Informatics will be
expanded and will include noted guest speakers from abroad, as
well.

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