Information Society Portugal Chronology
- 13/10/20081991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Graphs showing progress in selected Information Society indicators
1991
- February
- 26
- Presentation of the 1st Web browser, the World Wide Web (later Nexus), by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN – European Organisation for Nuclear Research
- 26
- November
- 11
- FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation, set up in 1987, starts registering .pt domains.
- PUUG – Portuguese Unix Users Group launches a “gateway” email service (via UUCP or TCP/IP over X.25).
- Brisa introduces the Via Verde automatic electronic toll payment system in the Lisbon area.
- MULTIBANCO breaks the 3 million ATM card and 200 million operations mark.
- Formal launch of the INFOCID project – Citizens’ Interdepartmental Information System by the Administrative Modernisation Secretariat, with the aim of creating a virtual one-stop shop for citizens contacting the Central Government. The service was initially made available by videotext in 1993, then multimedia kiosks in public places and was made available on the Internet in 1995.
- 11
1992
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- Beginning of the development of the CETbase information system on theatre in Portugal, which included more than 12,800 shows, 9,000 texts and 34,300 people by the end of 2007, at the Theatre Studies Centre, a research unit at the University of Lisbon's Faculdade de Letras funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).
- Installation of an experimental fibre optic broadband network in Mangualde with three telecommunity service centres, including TV distribution, telephony, video-conferencing and telematic services – health, central government, courses and educational games.
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- June
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- The 1st WWW server in Portugal set up at LNEC - National Civil Engineering Laboratory.
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1993
- April
- 22
- Launch of Mosaic 1.0, the 1st Web browser including pictures and text developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In January 1994, Mosaic 1.0 held 97% of the browser market.
- 30
- WorldWideWeb/Nexus was placed in the public domain by CERN, thus becoming freeware.
- 22
1994
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- Development and experimental operation of BBSRia (Bulletin Board System Ria), a series of WWW technology-based forums with a Beta version of the http protocol, granted by CERN, involving around 40 bodies: The universities of Aveiro and Minho, the CET – Telecommunications Studies Centre, schools, enterprises, hotels, central government, other public and private institutions and residential users. This system operated until 1997.
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- January
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- Creation of Yahoo! with more than 1.5 billion estimated visitors in 2008, with 3.4 billion views per day. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the top site in terms of traffic (page views).
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- February
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- Start of the privatisation process of the NSFNET Internet backbone initiated by the NSF – National Science Foundation, a governmental agency funding science in the USA that had created and maintained this backbone from 1986 linking more than 200 higher education institutions with the creation of the vBNS– Very High Speed Backbone Service (Internet2) for research and education and the allocation of NAPs – Network Access Points to private bodies allowing them to operate links between the vBNS, federal and commercial networks. These points were set up from mid-1993 on and it was stipulated that regional research and education networks would have connections via the NAPs from October 1994. This changeover took six months and it was decided that VBNS would be the only backbone server maintained by the NSF, which was instituted from August 1996.
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- March
- 29
- The colloquium “Portugal on the Internet” held at LNEC.
- 29
- May
- 26
- Bangemann Report – Europe and the Global Information Society, on specific measures for the consideration of the European Community and Member States for the infrastructures in the sphere of information, which was prepared at the request of the European Council at its meeting in Brussels in December 1993 for consideration at its meeting on 24th -25th June in Corfu.
- 26
- June
- 19
- September
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- Launch of the paid Internet access commercial service by Telepac (maximum speed: 9600 bps).
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- October
- 14
- Launch of the Web browser Mosaic Netscape 0.9 (later named Netscape Navigator) by the company Mosaic Communications Corporation, founded on 4th April 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark and which became known as Netscape from 14th November, the 1st company to capitalise on the Web (the value of shares increased more than fivefold on the first day they were listed, 9th August 1995). In April 1996, Netscape Navigator, which claimed to be a browser that could operate regardless of the operating system used, held 89% of the browser market.
- 14
- November
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- Creation of SAPO – Portuguese Domain Pointer Service by a team at the University of Aveiro’s Informatics Centre. In 1997 this became the basis of the Navegante company founded by the creators of SAPO, which was sold in 1998 to the company Saber&Lazer and to PT Multimedia in 1999.
- Launch of the 1st Web version of a Portuguese paper publication: "Blitz".
- Launch of the 1st live radio broadcast on the Internet in Portugal by Rádio Comercial.
- Launch of the 1st edition of Público Online, under the technical responsibility of the Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon.
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1995
- February
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- The first two Telepac POP (Internet access points) begin operating in Lisbon and Porto (maximum access speed 14 400 bps).
- All toll booths in Portugal now equipped with the “Via Verde” system.
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- April
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- Telepac registers 2,000 Internet access service clients.
- 30
- End of the NSFNET backbone Internet operation that had been set up and maintained by the NSF – National Science Foundation, following the privatisation process that began in February 1994.
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- June
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- Amazon.com, predominantly book-focussed e-commerce company set up by Jeffrey Bezos, publishes its site on the Web. It had 17 million customers by the end of 1999. In 2007, it turned over 14.8 billion dollars with a profit of 476 million dollars.
- 27
- Jornal de Notícias becomes the top national daily newspaper with an on-line version.
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- July
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- Esotérica (with roughly 400 customers) starts providing Internet access.
- The Internet Service Provider Ip Global starts business. It was created at INESC – AITEC and was later purchased by Novis.
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- August
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- Microsoft’s Web browser Internet Explorer launched after development work based on Mosaic licenses purchased from Spyglass Mosaic, a spinoff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which was set up to market NCSA technologies. In August 2006, Internet Explorer, which was already available in version 3, held 96% of the browser market.
- INFOCID – Citizens’ Interdepartmental Information System was made available on the Internet. It was the first system worldwide to include information and services from more than 50 public bodies, pre-empting the central government one-stop movement for dealing with the public and which was continued in 2004 by the Citizen's Portal.
- Rádio Comercial becomes the 1st radio station in Portugal to broadcast live online.
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- October
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- Creation at the FCCN of Pix - Portuguese Internet Exchange, the 1st Exchange Point in Portugal, with 4 partners at the time: RCCN – National Scientific Community Network, Telepac, EUnetPT and IP Global. The latter two later became part of Novis Telecom.
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1996
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- Opening of the 1st e-commerce portals in Portugal: Telepac’s CidadeVirtual, Esotérica’s Virtual Shopping Center and Consiste’s HiperVirtual.
- Opening of the 1st cybercafé in Portugal: Cyber.Bica, in Chiado in Lisbon.
- Start of development of telemedicine applications by INESC Aveiro, INESC Porto and CET, based on remote diagnosis systems and cooperative work and real-time transmission of ecographies and echocardiograms between the paediatrics services of the following hospitals: Infante D. Pedro in Aveiro, Coimbra Paediatrics, Santo André in Leiria and Maria Pia in Porto, and Júlio Dinis Maternity in Porto.
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- March
- 21
- Minister for Science and Higher Education tasked with promoting a national debate to prepare a Green Paper on the Information Society and the creation of a Mission Team for the Information Society (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 16/96, of 21st March).
- 28
- The FCCN became known as the Foundation for National Scientific Computation.
- 21
- June
- 22
- 1st Mission Forum for the Information Society at Penha Longa, 22nd – 23rd June.
- 22
- July
- 4
- Nomination of the Mission team for the Information Society (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 37/96, of 4th July).
- 4
- August
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- Conclusion of the privatisation process of the NSFNET Internet backbone, which began in mid-1993, with the NSF now only maintaining the vBNS – Very High Speed Backbone Service (Internet2) for research and education.
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- October
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- Launch of the Internet na Escola (Internet at School) Programme.
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- December
- 14
- 2nd Mission Forum for the Information Society at Penha Longa, 14th – 15th June.
- 14
1997
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- Creation of the RCTS - Science Technology and Society Network at the FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation, as an extension of the earlier National Scientific Community Network (RCCN), which in addition to connecting academic and higher education institutions, was also tasked with ensuring connections for elementary and secondary schools, public libraries, museums and bodies of an associative, cultural, scientific and educational nature, including citizens’ associations and those for citizens with special needs. This expansion meant that in 1999, the RCTS included the roughly 1,700 5th to 12th year schools, 220 schools from the first cycle, with all schools to be connected by 2001, 250 public libraries, 15 museums and 80 NGOs of an associative, cultural, scientific and educational nature.
- Creation of UARTE – Telematic Educational Network Support Unit, charged with providing activities promoting Internet use in schools.
- Launch of the first Portuguese home banking initiatives by Banco Português do Atlântico, Banco Nacional Ultramarino and Barclays Bank.
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- April
- 15
- Publication of the Green Paper for the Information Society.
- 15
- June
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- International RCTS connectivity increases from 1 Mbps to 3 Mbps.
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- September
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- Conclusion of the 1st phase of the Internet at School Programme with 1,600 schools connected to the Internet via RDIS through multimedia computers (all schools from 5th to 12th years).
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- December
- 14
- 1st pilot electronic voting experiment in Portugal conducted in local elections in the ward of S. Sebastião da Pedreira (Lisbon). Portugal thus became the 5th European country to conduct an electronic vote experiment, following the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain, and the 9th in the world after the aforementioned countries, the United States of America, Canada, Brazil and the Philippines.
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- Approval for income tax deductions for computers for personal use, modems, RDIS cards and terminal equipment over the 1998-2001 period(State Budget Law for 1998, Art. 43, of 20th December 1997).
- 1st Instant Messenger made available - ICQ (I Seek You) – launched by the Israeli company Mirablis, which was purchased by AOL in 1999. Microsoft later released MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger and Windows Live Messenger, which became the most-used system of this type with more than 230 million users.
- 14
1998
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- 1st Portuguese online bookshop Mediabooks, owned by Texto Editora, opened.
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- February
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- International RCTS connectivity increases to 14 Mbps, compared with 1 Mbps until May 1997.
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- Measures regarding non-recognition of the year 2000 by certain IT systems defined and Central Government achieving the objectives for the Information Society in the Green Paper (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 16/98, of 2nd February).
- Launch of the Digital Cities Programme (1998-2000), managed and funded by Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), with funding from the Telecommunications Operational Intervention, located in the Alentejo, Aveiro, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Marinha Grande and Vila Real and including a special project with ethnic minorities on the outskirts of Lisbon and in Setúbal.
- Petition for Portuguese Internet Accessibility handed in online to the Portuguese Parliament, with approximately 9,000 signatures collected online. This petition, promoted by the Portuguese Accessibility Initiatives Groups, was the first to be delivered online in Portugal and also the first to collect signatures online.
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- March
- 17
- Simplification of procedures for purchasing IT goods and services for the transition to the year 2000 (Decree Law No. 58/98, of 17th March).
- 17
- April
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- Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) makes databases available online of the activities it supports (scholars, R&D projects, R&D units, meetings, publications and scientific societies) organised to set up a secure platform linking the scientific community online, becoming the most advanced S&T funding institution in terms of making this type of platforms available.
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- May
- 6
- Stipulation that directorate-generals, equivalent services and public institutions must have an email address to be contacted on by citizens and public and private bodies and to publicise said address, and that correspondence transmitted electronically shall have the same value as that in paper format (Council Of Ministers' Resolution No. 60/98, of 6th May).
- 15
- Start of the Portuguese Language Computing Processing Programme, whose objective was to encourage making good the delay in the availability of computing tools for processing Portuguese.
- Start of the Portuguese Language Computing Processing Programme, which, among other tasks, involved obtaining, organising and making information available to the public on the Internet regarding scholars, projects and research units in the area, as well as access to the processing corpora and tools, and preparing the creation of a resource centre for the Portuguese language, the Linguateca, which was launched in May 2000.
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- June
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- Start of pilot project at FCCN for the transition to IPv6.
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- July
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- Launch of the preparation process of the White Paper on Portuguese Scientific and Technological Development (1999-2006) and opening a Standing Forum on S&T Policy on the Internet. The FCT and OCT organised roughly 30 public debate sessions involving more than 3,500 participants, researchers, heads of units, company and public and private bodies’ representatives at various locations throughout the country between February and May 1999. The contributions that were collected were used to prepare the Operational Science, Technology and Innovation Programme (POCTI) and the Operational Information Society Programme (POSI), which, after a negotiation process by a Portuguese team coordinated by Luis Magalhães, FCT President, were approved in July 2000 in the scope of CSF III (2000-2006) with total funding of 1.8 billion Euros.
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- September
- 1
- Creation of the National eCommerce Initiative (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 115/98, of 1st September).
- 15
- Launch of the Google.com domain by Google Inc. Itself set up a week beforehand. It became the leader of the search engine market in 2000 and held more than 50% of this market in August 2007, followed by Yahoo with a mere 20%. It became the largest American company in terms of market capitalisation that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of 2007. In May 2008, it had 135 million visitors in the USA alone. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the second site in terms of traffic (page views).
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- October
- 26
- Approval of the Personal Data Protection law (Law No. 67/98, of 26th October).
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- November
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- Creation of the ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as an international non-profit public utility organisation based in California, USA, tasked with coordinating the system of allocating names on the Internet, keeping the Internet safe, stable and interoperable, and promoting competition for registering Internet names, managing the DNS – Domain Identification System – previously managed by IANA – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, under the US Government's Department of Commerce.
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- December
- 31
- State Budget for 1999 Law foresees tax benefits on income tax for the purchase of computers and other IT equipment.
- 31
1999
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- Launch of the 1st Portuguese newspaper to be published exclusively online - Diário Digital.
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- March
- 2
- 1st meeting of the GAC – Governmental Advisory Committee, in Singapore, comprising representatives of governments and states, public authorities from world regional economies and several intergovernmental organisations as an advisory body for the ICANN with the objective of reflecting on public policy prospects of ICANN allocations.
- 2
- April
- 6
- Extension of the mandate of the Mission Team for the Information Society and its respective President (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 41/99, of 6th April).
- 6
- May
- 5
- Approval of the WCAG 1.0 – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 1.0 by W3C – World Wide Web Consortium.
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- June
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- GEOCID, an Internet portal from which any citizens can access the National Geographic Information System network, made available.
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- General rules on coordinating the purchase and use of information technologies in Central Government defined and specific rules set for the hire or purchase of IT goods or services (Decree Law No. 196/99, of 8th June).
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- August
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- International RCTS connectivity increases to 34 Mbps, compared with 1 Mbps until May 1997.
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- Approval of the legal regime for electronic documents and digital signatures (Decree Law No. 290-D/99, of 2nd August).
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- Portugal joins the ICAAN’s GAC – Governmental Advisory Committee, participating at the 3rd meeting of this committee in Santiago, Chile, represented by the President of the FCCN.
- 25
- Approval of the National eCommerce Initiative Guidance Document (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 94/99, of 25th August).
- Obligation to make information held by the Central Government available online (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 95/99, of 25th August).
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- National Initiative for Citizens with Special Needs in the Information Society – guidance document (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 96/99, of 26th August).
- Central Government bodies’ websites have to satisfy accessibility requirements for citizens with special needs (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 97/99, of 26th August).
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- September
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- 1st version of an Internet corpora server made available after being unveiled in Évora in the scope of the Portuguese Computing Processing project.
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- Equivalence of invoices issued in paper format and electronic invoices (Decree Law No. 375/1999, of 18th September).
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- November
- 19
- Presentation of POCTI - Operational Science, Technology and Innovation Programme to the European Commission, which stipulates that “a National S&T Library shall be launched online, in conjunction with international scientific documentation systems" and the “Portuguese Language Computing Processing Programme” is identified as one of the “topics of public interest where science and technology should be called on to intervene”.
- Presentation of POSI – Operational Information Society Programme to the European Commission.
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- Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) – introduces an application and evaluation system for R&D projects, SAPIENS – Submission and Assessment of Proposals on a Safer Internet. With this, it stood at the forefront in terms of the use of these systems worldwide and setting an advanced and ground-breaking example of eGovernment (the USA’s NSF – National Science Foundation pioneered electronic project applications in 1989 and set the objective of 100% electronic applications in 2000, which was not achieved. In Europe, this type of system started to be introduced as an experiment in 1996-9 under the EU’s Research Framework Programme, yet electronic applications were fewer than 5% in 1999 for agencies funding research in European countries. The most advanced were the United Kingdom’s Research Councils, yet they continued to put off introducing electronic applications).
- The FCT introduced the most advanced Internet assessment system for R&D project applications in the world at a time when the NSF was gearing up to launch an experimental system in 2000. This system remained streets ahead of any other throughout the world for the next 3 years.
- The FCT also introduced advanced electronic signatures in this area, becoming the 1st body to use electronic signatures in Portugal, less than four months after the corresponding legislation was approved.
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- Signature of the protocol between the Ministry of Science and Technology, Telecel and SUN Microsystems regarding the creation of a free email service with capacity for 1 million user mailboxes, which was later labelled Megamail.
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2000
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- 15 years after its launch, the Multibanco system has more than 7,800 ATMs (cashpoints) and more than 78,700 terminals for in-store payment.
- FCCN, Telecel and SUN Microsystems launch the MegaMail project, with the goal of making a million free email addresses available.
- Opening of NetViagens, the 1st exclusively online travel agency in Portugal.
- TV station SIC launches its multimedia portal, SIC Online.
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- February
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- First annotated corpora in the scope of the Portuguese Language Computing Processing project made freely available on the Internet.
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- Signature of a protocol between the Ministry of Science & Technology (MCT) and the National Association of Portuguese municipalities to extend the RCTS - Science Technology and Society Network – to 1st cycle elementary schools (EB1), stipulating that the MCT shall provide and ensure RDIS connections for all EB1 schools, providing them with access to various RCTS IP services, space for hosting their own Internet pages, email mailboxes, technical support and educational support through uARTE – Telematic Educational Network Support Unit.
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- March
- 10
- Burst of the dot.com bubble. The NASDAC hit a high of 5.132.52, more than twice the value the year before falling to a quarter of the value a year and a half later. It has since recovered, reaching slightly more than half the maximum value seen in March 2000 in 2008.
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- Presidency Conclusions on the Lisbon Strategy at the EU Council in Lisbon, presided by Portugal.
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- Public presentation of the R&D project “Selective Access in Portuguese to the Database of Opinions of the Advisory Council of the State Prosecutor of the Republic”, conducted in a consortium between the Office of the State Prosecutor, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa's Faculty of Science and Technology and the Heurística company, with funding from the Praxis XXI programme.
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- April
- 10
- Conference on the Information and Knowledge Society in Europe – Towards a Europe of Information and Knowledge, “e-Europe: a Web of Knowledge”, held during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, 10th -11th April 2000.
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- Administrative procedures set out for exchanging information on Information Society norms, technical regulations and services (Decree Law No. 58/2000, of 18th April).
- 19
- Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) – and the “Público” newspaper sign a protocol on the rights of use for texts encompassing 180 million words to set up a corpus (CETEMPúblico) as a working basis for R&D projects in Portuguese language computing processing.
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- May
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- Launch of the Linguateca, Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing to provide exhaustive information online about resources in this field: Scientific institutions, researchers, scholars, scientific publications, theses, corpora and other tools for Portuguese language computing processing and providing access to some of these tools. Following the FCT President’s guidelines, the Centre was structured online with representations in the main research centres working in this field in Portugal and abroad, firstly with the Oslo office at SINTEF.
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- Signature of a protocol between Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), ISCTE, the Historic Overseas Archive, The National Library, Porto Municipal Museum, Lisbon City Council (Museu da Cidade), the Historic Military Archive, the Central Navy Library/Central Archive, Lisbon Geography Society, the National Archive of Brazil, the Directorate for Navy Historical and Cultural Patrimony of Brazil, the Army Historical Archive of Brazil, the National Library Foundation of Brazil, and the Ministry of Foreign Relations Map Library of Brazil for cooperation in the scope of the project “Urban Morphologies of Portuguese Cities”, whose objectives included setting up a Virtual Archive for Urban Cartography and research into the urban morphologies of Portuguese cities.
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- Approval of the action plan eEurope 2002 – An Information Society for All by the Feira European Council, which was prepared by the Portuguese Presidency of the EU and the European Commission.
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- June
- 18
- The Institute of Information Technologies in Justice given the role of accrediting certifying entities for electronic signatures (Decree Law No. 146/2000, of 18th June).
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- Approval of the initiative eEurope: An Information Society for All by the Feira European Council, presided by Portugal.
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- July
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- Legislation on legal protection of databases (Decree Law No. 122/2000, of 4th July).
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- Approval of POCTI - Operational Science, Technology and Innovation Programme by the European Commission, where a total public investment of 988 million Euros is foreseen, co-funded equally by community funding (ERDF and ESF) and through national funding, after negotiations between Portugal and the European Commission conducted from 19th November by a team coordinated by Luis Magalhães, FCT President.
- 27
- Measures for generalising and purchasing goods and services electronically by the Central Government set out (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 143/2000, of 27th September).
- 28
- Approval of POSI – Operational Information Society Programme (2000-2006), foreseeing a total public investment of 625 million Euros, co-funded equally by community funding (ERDF and ESF) and through national funding, after negotiations between Portugal and the European Commission conducted from 19th November by a team coordinated by Luis Magalhães, FCT President.
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- August
- 10
- Change to the system allowing judicial procedures via telecopy or email even outside normal court working hours (Decree Law No. 183/2000, of 10th August).
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- Creation of the CISI – Interministerial Commission for the Information Society (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 114/2000, of 18th August).
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- Approval of the Internet Initiative, which includes goals on Internet use by Central Government and by citizens in their dealings with it, including generalisation of email to all Government levels, reform of the State Procurement Facility to promote the purchase of goods and services electronically and to make the way the State purchases goods and services more flexible (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 110/2000, of 22nd August).
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- September
- 19
- Definition of characteristics of the mandatory civil liability insurance contract for electronic documents and digital signatures (Ministerial Decree No. 1370/2000, of 19th September).
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- Creation of the Technical Accreditation Board for certifying bodies of digital signatures (Decree Law No. 234/2000, of 25th September).
- 27
- Ministries of Social Facilities, Finance, Science and Technology and State and Central Government Reform tasked with tabling ways and means of action leading to the spread of eCommerce in Central Government (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 143/2000, of 27th September).
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- October
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- International RCTS connectivity increases to 44 Mbps, compared with 1 Mbps until May 1997.
- Linguateca the Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing makes the CETEMPúblico European Portuguese corpus available online free.
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- Definition of the usage conditions and requirements for invoices or equivalent documents sent electronically (Regulatory Decree No. 16/2000, of 2nd October).
- 1st meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society.
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- November
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- Launch of the Linguateca Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing’s Braga Centre in the Universidade do Minho's Informatics Department and the Odense centre at VISL.
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- Lojas do Cidadão (Citizens’ Bureau) Managing Institute tasked with the progressive development of a network of personalised citizens help centres using new technologies (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 155/2000, of 15th November).
- 16
- Creation of the Direct Public Service, in the scope of Infocid – Citizens’ Interdepartmental Information System (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 156/2000, of 16th November).
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- Signature of a protocol between FCCN and Lotus enabling licensing of Lotus software at special rates for FCCN, higher education institutions, State laboratories and non-profit institutions and schools connected to RCTS.
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- “Accessibility of Central Government Websites” conference.
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- December
- 15
- 2nd meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society.
- 29
- Amendment of the Patronage of the Arts Statute to include patronage for the Information Society.
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2001
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- Foundation of Creative Commons, a private, non-profit association that was set up to develop licenses enabling authors to share knowledge work simply, efficiently and flexibly, via a series of standard licenses which guarantee protection and freedom – with some reserved rights.
- Installation of 1Gbps gateways at PIX, installed at FCCN, from then on known as GigaPIX.
- Launch of the Minho Campus Party, a “LAN party” motivated by high speed access to the Net.
- SIBS and UNICRE launch the rechargeable MBNet credit card for online payments.
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- January
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- Linguateca the Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing makes the two-directional COMPARA English - Portuguese corpus available online free. This resource enables users to obtain translations for a word in several sentence contexts.
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- Creation of a working group to liaise between UMTS operators, the ICP and the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society, with a view to monitoring the commitments undertaken by UMTS operators (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 3/2001, of 8 January).
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- Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch the Wikipedia website, designed as a universal encyclopaedia in all major languages driven by voluntary contributions via the Internet (Web 2.0). Wikipedia had more than 10 million articles in more than 250 languages, more than 75,000 contributors and more than 684 million visitors per year in April 2008. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the eight most popular site in terms of traffic (page views).
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- Authorisation of requests for certificates for the admissibility of signatures or names and certificates of recorded acts electronically (Decree Law No. 12/2001, of 25 January).
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- February
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- International RCTS connectivity increases to 81 Mbps, compared with 1 Mbps until May 1997.
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- Direct Public Service (INFOCID) made available online.
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- Tender launched to set up Internet Spaces throughout the country in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
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- FCCN makes it possible to register the 1st .pt sub domains: .name.pt, .org.pt, int.pt, edu.pt, net.pt, gov.pt and com.pt.
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- Provision for periodic assessment of pages on the Internet belonging to bodies directly or indirectly part of the State administration (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 22/2001, of 27th February).
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- March
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- Creation of an Internet site decreed where staff competitions for public bodies will be published and a site to advertise scientific and technological vacancies (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 24/2001, of 1st March).
- Ministers tasked with presenting proposals for measures to aid civil servants and workers purchase computers and other IT equipment and for their employers to make said equipment and computers available to them (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 25/2001, of 1st March).
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- Publication and public discussion decreed of the expert report on the purchase of goods electronically by the Central Government (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 32/2001, of 2nd March).
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- Tenders for the Open State – Modernising Central Government projects launched in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
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- April
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- Creation of the Solidarity Network within the RCTS, comprising Non-Governmental Organisations of and for the handicapped, elderly or those at risk of exclusion. This network included 84 organisations in February 2002 and by the end of 2002 had grown to 127 organisations.
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- Made mandatory for employers employing 10 or more workers to declare pay digitally or via the Internet to the solidarity and social security services (Decree Law No. 106/2001, of 6th April).
- 20
- 3rd meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society.
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- May
- 7
- Rules laid down governing the free transfer of IT equipment by Central Government bodies (Decree Law No. 153/2001, of 7th May).
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- June
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- Linguateca, the Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing makes the first trees from the Syntactical Forest available online free.
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- Calls for tender launched for projects producing or making Portuguese content of public interest available in digital format in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
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- July
- 5
- Creation of a working group to implement the Citizen’s card (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 77/2001, of 5th July).
- 22
- Publication of the Best Practice Guide for the Construction of Direct or Indirect State Administration Websites by the OCT – Science and Technology Observatory.
- 24
- Call for tender opened for projects under the Support Fund for Promoting the Information Society in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- Call for tender launched for Qualifying for the Open State – Modernising Central Government projects launched in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 5
- August
- 10
- Definition of the regime for signing protocols between the State and local councils for administrative modernisation, under which, inter alia, projects promoting the Information Society, namely by creating a local council Intranet and connecting local authorities to the Internet are eligible (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 108/2001, of 10th August).
- 21
- Criteria defined for accrediting bodies awarding the basic IT skills diploma, the model and the system for issuing said diploma and other requirements necessary to gain it (Ministerial Decree No. 1013/2001, of 21st August).
- 27
- Norms defined for sending pay declarations by email to the solidarity and social security system services (Portaria Ministerial Decree No. 1039/2001, of 27th August).
- 30
- Government Portal created and the respective maintenance and updating objectives and rules defined (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 138/2001, of 30th August).
- 10
- October
- 2
- 4th meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society.
- OCT – Science and Technology Observatory given competences for the basic IT skills diploma in: a) Centralising information on diploma awards; b) Maintaining an up-to-date record of monitoring indicators and exams held; c) Maintaining an up-to-date record of the different bodies awarding the diploma, contributing to the respective consistency and coordination efforts; d) Defining the model diploma to be issued to successful candidates (Order No. 20634/2001, of 2nd October).
- 2
- November
- 2
- Call for tender opened for Digital Cities and Digital Regions Projects in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 2
- December
- 12
- APDSI – Association for the Development of the Information Society founded.
- 16
- 2nd pilot electronic voting experiment in Portugal conducted in local elections in the wards of Sobral de Monte Agraço and Campelo (Baião).
- All basic and secondary schools now have RDIS connections to the Internet.
- OCT – Science and Technology Observatory makes the ISI/Thomson Web of Knowledge available (titles and summaries of articles from 8450 journals and minutes from roughly 10,000 conferences per year, quote and impact information, records since 1945) as a first step towards the “National |Online S&T Library”, as foreseen in POCTI – Operational Science, Technology and Innovation Programme for the European Commission which was submitted to the European Commission in November 1999, and the start of negotiations with international scientific publishing houses with a view to making entire texts from scientific journal articles available to this library. This followed on from the preparatory work that exhaustively analysed the subscription contracts to scientific journals of Portuguese institutions which the OCT carried out in 2000-2001.
- 12
2002
- January
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- The Via Verde system, which was launched in 1991, now has nearly 1.3 million subscribers – more than 50% of motorway toll users in Portugal.
- Approval of the Internet@EB1 Programme, coordinated by FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation for monitoring schools in the 1st cycle of elementary education by Higher Education Schools from polytechnic institutes, the aim being to promote and facilitate Internet use for educational purposes in these schools and to promote teacher training in specific educational situations.
- 12
- Approval of the standard form to request authorisation to use or amend an eInvoicing system (Ministerial Decree No. 52/2002, of 12th January).
- 31
- Provisions for public bodies to adopt plans for the purchase, use and updating of computer programmes, including the option of combining purchases and procurement procedures, and to use open-source or free software (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 21/2002, de 31st January).
- Provisions for references to State websites on the Internet and publication of State advertising on websites operated by third parties (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 22/2002, of 31st January).
- Public presentation of Portugal’s bid to host the Robot Soccer World Cup (RoboCup 2004) at the Systems and Robotics Institute, Lisbon.
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- February
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- Publication of the 1st External Assessment of Websites on the Internet belonging to Bodies Directly or Indirectly part of the State Administration, prepared by Accenture for the OCT - Science and Technology Observatory.
- 4
- Launch of the Tele-aula project to help bedridden children learn using ICT, based on a protocol signed by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Dona Estefânia Hospital and the Ministry of Education.
- 11
- FCT opens a call for tender for R&D projects for Autonomous Mobile Robot teams in Cooperation/Competition – Improving Scientific Competences to take part in the Robot World Soccer Cup.
- 20
- FCT launches call for tender for R&D projects in Advanced Networking Technologies – New Protocols, Security and High Speed, including IPv6 systems.
- 25
- 5th meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society.
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- March
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- International RCTS connectivity increases to 622 Mbps, compared with 1 Mbps until May 1997. International RCTS connectivity has increased by 622 times in less than 5 years.
- 2
- The electronic availability and submission of standard forms of bodies and public services belonging to the Central Administration are deemed legally relevant (Decree Law No. 51/2002, of 2nd March).
- National record of doctoral theses created and made available online (Decree Law No. 52/2002, of 2nd March).
- 3
- Call for tender launched for the Programme for the Creation of Public Internet Access Posts in parish councils in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 20
- Competences allocated for the creation of an Internet site advertising job vacancies in the science and technology area, stating the information that should be given on it (Decree Law No. 67/2002, 20th March).
- 29
- Programme for the Creation of Public Internet Access Posts in parish councils launched.
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- April
- 3
- Regulation on tax collection from advertising sales on the Internet (Ministerial Decree No. 352/2002, of 3rd April).
- 12
- Approval of regime for the purchase of goods electronically by public bodies (Decree Law No. 104/2002, of 12th April).
- 30
- OCT - Science and Technology Observatory tasked with issuing instructions regarding the practical exam to obtain the basic IT skills diploma (Order No. 8888/2002, of 30th April).
- Accreditation for issuing the basic IT skills diploma given to: Espaços Internet (Internet Spaces), Ciência Viva Centres and other bodies affiliated to the Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, bodies that are part of the Digital Cities and Digital Regions projects, the Foundation for National Scientific Computation, public and private scientific and technological research institutions recognised by Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) as having activities in the information technology area (Order No. 8889/2002, of 30th April).
- 3
- May
- 7
- Education and training bodies qualified to issue the basic IT skills diploma accredited (Order No. 9279/2002, of 7th May).
- 7
- June
- 22
- Approval of the Action Plan eEurope 2005: An Information Society for All by the Seville Council of the European Union.
- 25
- Approval for electronically sending the standard forms for accessory IRS obligations (Ministerial Decree No. 698/2002, of 25th June).
- 22
- September
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- CERT.PT set up in the scope of the FCCN-run RCTS, the only response tea, for IT security incidents in Portugal. The team was internationally accredited from this date until 2007 when a further team was accredited.
- Linguateca, the Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing, makes the CETENFolha corpus available online free. CETENFolha (Corpus of Electronic Text Extracts/Folha de S. Paulo) is a corpus of approximately 24 million words in Brazilian Portuguese, set up by the Portuguese Language Computing Processing Programme that resulted in Linguateca, based on texts from the S. Paulo newspaper that partly make up the NILC/São Carlos corpus compiled by the Interinstitutional Computing Linguistics Nucleus (NILC).
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- Outubro
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- Launch of the Linguateca Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing’s Porto hub at CLUP/FLUP.
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- November
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- Launch of the Lisbon hub of the Linguateca Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing, COMPARA, at the FCCN.
- 20
- New institutional framework set out for Government activities in the Information Society, innovation and eGovernment, which included the creation of UMIC - Innovation and Knowledge Mission Unit and the CIIC – Interministerial Innovation and Knowledge Commission (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 135/2002, of 20th November).
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- December
- 18
- 1st meeting of the CIIC – Interministerial Innovation and Knowledge Commission.
- 18
2003
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- IRS tax returns can now be filed online.
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- January
- 18
- Made mandatory for services and bodies with staff enrolled in the Caixa Geral de Aposentações (Portuguese civil servants retirement and survivor pensions funds) to send a breakdown of contributions digitally or via email (Decree Law No. 8/2003, of 18th January).
- 18
- February
- 21
- Call for tender launched for e-U: Campus Virtual initiative projects encouraging the production and availability of Internet content and respective applications in Portuguese, preferably for broadband, in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 21
- March
- 12
- Measures for generalising and purchasing goods and services electronically by the Central Government and the business community set out (Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 36/2003, of 12th March).
- 12
- April
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- RCTS IPv6 domestic connection to the European GEANT network comes on-stream.
- 3
- Transposition of Directive 1999/93/EC, of 13th December, of the European Parliament and the Council on electronic signatures (Decree Law No. 62/2003, of 3rd April).
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- May
- 28
- Call for tender launched for Open State – Modernising Central Government projects in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- The FCCN’s RCTS is the 3rd European network to join the GEANT network’s IPv6 service, which is already available for all user bodies.
- 28
- July
- 21
- Call for tender launched for projects encouraging the production and availability of Internet content and respective applications in Portuguese, preferably for broadband, in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 24
- Call for tender launched to set up Broadband Internet Spaces in Public Spaces in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 21
- August
- 7
- Provisions laid down for exclusive electronic publication of the Official Journal, Diário da Assembleia da República along with new rules for the use of Information and Communication Technologies in parliamentary work (Resolution of the Portuguese Parliament No. 68/2003, of 7th August).
- Approval of the Information Society Action Plan (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 107/2003, of 12th August).
- Approval of the eGovernment Action Plan (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 108/2003, of 12th August).
- Approval of the National Broadband Initiative (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 109/2003, of 12th August).
- Approval of the National Programme for the Participation of Citizens with Special Needs in the Information Society (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 110/2003, of 12th August).
- National Programme for eProcurement approved (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 111/2003, of 12th August).
- Social networking website MySpace launched. This site, along with Facebook, has now become the market leader of social networking sites. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the seventh most popular site in terms of traffic (page views).
- 7
- September
- October
- 21
- Special regime adopted for expenses under the National Programme for eProcurement and the Citizen's Portal, Central Government communication costs rationalised (Decree Law No. 255/2003, of 21st October).
- 21
- November
- 3
- 10
- 15
- 20
- Launch of the Universidade do Minho’s open access scientific and academic repository, RepositoriUM, the 1st Portuguese language repository worldwide, using the MIT DSpace platform.
- December
- 9
- Best Practice Guide for the Construction of Direct or Indirect State Administration Websites.
- 10
- 1st phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, organised by the United Nations in Geneva, 10th – 12th December 2003.
- 27
- Special reduction of the judicial fee for judicial procedures where data is transmitted electronically (Decree Law No. 324/2003, of 27th December).
- 9
2004
- January
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- Launch of the Linguateca Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing’s Lisbon hub at XLDB/LasiGE/FCUL.
- 7
- Transposition of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 8th June 2000 on information society services, particularly eCommerce, and article 13 of Directive 2002/58/EC. of 12th July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Decree Law No. 7/2004, of 7th January).
- 11
- 13
- 28
- Internet Week - Broadband.
- RCTS international band width upped to 1.2 Gbps.
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- February
- 2
- 550 new Internet access pointsfollowing protocols with Fastacess, Refer and CTT.
- 4
- Launch of the social networking website Facebook, which received 124 million unique visitors in May 2008. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the fifth most popular site in terms of traffic (page views).
- 2
- March
- 16
- Citizen's Portal launched.
- 16
- April
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- Replicator of one of the DNS – Domain Name System world root servers installed at FCCN (there were 13 of these servers in 2007, 4 of which were outside the USA) with an ISC – Internet Systems Consortium connection to GigaPix.
- 19
- Launch of b-on: Online Knowledge Library, which had been foreseen in 1999 in POCTI under the name “National Online S&T Library”, and for which the OCT – Science and Technology Observatory laid the groundwork through a series of actions, namely: OCT conducted an exhaustive survey in 2000-2001 of subscriptions to and the costs of scientific periodical publications for Portuguese institutions to act as the primary information for negotiations with international publishing houses; OCT made the ISI/Thomson Web of Knowledge available in December 2001; OCT began negotiations with international publishing houses for national subscriptions so that entire texts from the respective scientific periodical publications could be made available digitally.
- 29
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- May
- 3
- UMIC - Innovation and Knowledge Mission Unit given the powers and competences from the Citizens’ Integrated Administrative Information System (INFOCID) and the Direct Public Service (Decree Law No. 98/2004, of 3rd May).
- 3
- June
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- The Portuguese Language Computing Processing Resource Centre Linguateca XLDB hub makes 2003 WPT03 Portuguese web collection available free on the Internet (roughly 12 GB). WPT 03 was put together with crawlers from the Tumba! Search engine set up by the XLDB Group. It has 3,775,611 documents, of which 69% (2,590,641) are written in Portuguese.
- 13
- 3rd pilot electronic voting experiment conducted in Portugal in the European Parliament elections in the parishes of Mirandela (Mirandela), Paranhos (Porto), Mangualde (Viseu), São Bernardo (Aveiro), Sé (Portalegre), Belém (Lisbon), São Sebastião (Setúbal), Salvador (Beja), Salir (Loulé), in which 9% of voters took part.
- 14
- 16
- Definition of the way judicial procedures sent by email can be presented for judgement, in addition to the notifications issued by the court secretariat to the parties' lawyers (Ministerial Decree No. 642/2004, of 16th June).
- 25
- Proposal to reshape POSI - Operational Information Society Programme, which then became the POSC – Knowledge Society Operational Plan.
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- July
- 6
- Legal regime for electronic documents and digital signatures amended (Decree Law No. 165/2004, of 6th July).
- 15
- Regulation of the legal regime for electronic documents and digital signatures (Regulatory Decree No. 25/2004, of 15th July).
- 29
- Reference list for technical specifications for cryptographic algorithms for electronic signatures published (Order No. 16445/2004, of 29th July).
- 6
- August
- 14
- Call for tender launched for the creation of public Internet access spaces in Public Municipal Libraries, Toy & Leisure libraries and Municipal Museums and Archives under POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- Call for tender launched for projects aiming to provide pre-school establishments that belong to the state network with IT equipment under POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 14
- September
- 18
- Transposition of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 12th July concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Law No. 41/2004, of 18th September).
- 21
- 22
- Call for tender launched for public e-Procurement projects in ministries in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 18
- October
- 23
- Terms for registering certifying bodies for electronic signatures laid down (Ministerial Decree No. 1350/2004, of 23rd October).
- 23
- November
- December
- 14
- Publication of the reference list of norms and technical specifications approved by the accrediting authority developed in the scope of the European Electronic Signature Standardisation Initiative (Order No. 27008/2004, of 14th December).
- 22
- Central Government Communications Manual approved(Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 181/2004, of 22nd December).
- 27
- Interim review of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme approved. POSI becomes POSC - Knowledge Society Operational Plan.
- 14
2005
- January
- 3
- 4
- Public procurement regime defined for leasing and purchasing goods, services, electronic communication networks and related equipment and services (Decree Law No. 1/2005, of 4th January)
- 30
- February
- 15
- YouTube launched, enabling users to post their own video content. In July 2006, the site had more than 100 million videos viewed daily and more than 65 thousand added every day. In January 2008, roughly 79 million visitors viewed more than 3 million videos. It is calculated that the bandwidth used by YouTube in 2007 was the equivalent of the entire Internet bandwidth in 2000. At the beginning of August 2008, it was the third most popular site in terms of traffic (page views).
- 20
- 4th pilot electronic voting experiment conducted in Portugal in the legislative elections in the parishes of Conceição (Covilhã), Santa Iria da Azóia (Loures), São Sebastião da Pedreira, Santos-o-Velho and Coração de Jesus (Lisbon), in which 33% of voters took part, and for voters registered abroad in which 3% of voters participated.
- 21
- 15
- March
- 15
- Regulation of electronic transmission and receipt of documents with the value of certificates with regard to archive and notary services (Decree Law No. 66/2005, of 15th March).
- Legal regime defined for the construction, management and access to public domain State infrastructures for hosting electronic communication networks (Decree Law No. 68/2005, of 15th March).
- 15
- April
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- IPv6 prefix obtained for GigaPIX, installed at FCCN, which then offered this service to its members, who were pioneers in using it: FCCN, Vodafone Portugal, Telepac and NFSi Telecom.
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- June
- 1
- Launch of the European Union initiative i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment.
- 27
- 1
- July
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- Launch of the Linguateca. Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing’s Coimbra hub at UC.
- 14
- Acts regarding commercial companies and other legal entities subject to mandatory publication may now be published on a public access Internet site (Ministerial Decree No. 590-A/2005, of 14th July).
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- August
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- The Porto hub of Linguateca, the Resource Centre for Portuguese Language Computing Processing makes the Corpograph available online free (GNU licence). The Corpograph is the first free tool in the world enabling corpora terminological study searches.
- 9
- Online auction for the purchase of IT equipment for 23 bodies from 7 ministries enables major savings.
- 17
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- September
- 15
- Call for tender launched to set up Internet Spaces throughout the country in the scope of POSI - Operational Information Society Programme.
- 28
- 30
- Guidelines for the quick preparation of the necessary legal and organisational instruments to institute the project for issuing the new Portuguese Electronic Passport, enabling dovetailing with the Citizen’s Card (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 154/2005, of 30th September).
- 15
- October
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- RCTS international connection bandwidth more than doubled to 2.5 Gbps. Bandwidth between Lisbon and Braga increased from 1 Gbps to 10Gbps, following FCCN’s installation and purchase of a fibre-optics cable between the two cities, enabling connections of 10 Gbps for the 7 largest universities: Universidade de Lisboa, Técnica de Lisboa, Nova de Lisboa, Coimbra, Aveiro, Porto and Minho, and thus 60% of the higher education system.
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- November
- 3
- Approval of the creation of the State Electronic Certifying Body (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 171/2005, of 3rd November).
- 16
- 2nd phase of the World Summit on the Information Society organised by the United Nations in Tunis, 16th – 18th December 2003.
- 19
- Decision at the Portugal – Spain Summit for the two countries to complete their fibre-optic research and education networks to the respective Alentejo –Extremadura and Minho – Galiza borders so as to provide a 10 Gbps redundant fibre connection ring with mutual advantages in terms of increasing the international broadband connection and to ensure connection safety in the event of a cut in the line.
- 3
- December
- 1
- Tax breaks of up to 250 Euros and half the purchase price of a computer and terminal equipment from 1st December 2005 to 31st December 2008 start to be applied on income tax for families with students in any level of education who are not in the highest tax bracket (Article 64 of the Budget Law for 2006).
- 16
- Technological Plan approved (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 190/2005, of 16th December).
- 27
- Launch of the ICT paediatrics project promoted by the FDTI - Foundation for Disseminating Information Technologies, aims to make technological resources available to children hospitalised in paediatric wards, enabling them to relax and be in contact with their families, school and friends via web-cams, personal computers and small family blogs.
- 30
- Amendments to the Electronic Invoices regime approved (Law No. 60-A/2005 (Budget Law for 2006), of 30th December (Lei do Orçamento para 2006), de 30 de Dezembro).
- 1
2006
- January
- February
- 1
- Calls for tender launched in the scope of POSC - Knowledge Society Operational Programme for:
- Community Network Projects;
- Projects to encourage the creation, production and digitalisation of content and applications of an educational, scientific and cultural nature to be made available on the Internet;
- Projects to create and develop applications for citizens with special needs;
- Projects to intensify and galvanise broadband Internet use;
- Projects for the ICT training actions necessary for integrated projects, such as Digital Cities and Digital Regions and e-U: Campus Virtual.
- Calls for tender launched in the scope of POSC - Knowledge Society Operational Programme for:
- 1
- March
- 2
- 8
- 10
- Forum for the Information Society.
- Open source software agreement signed between UMIC and SUN Microsystems.
- 27
- 29
- Launch of the Commitment to Science for Portugal's Future initiative.
- April
- 28
- IV European Union – Latin America and the Caribbean Ministerial Forum on the Information Society organised by UMIC in Lisbon.
- 29
- 28
- May
- 4
- 5
- Creation of a public service mandated, enabling voluntary communication between the Central Government, autonomous government services and bodies, independent administrative bodies and courts, citizens and enterprises through sending email correspondence to a nominal electronic post box (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 50/2006, of 5th May).
- 18
- The Legislate Better Programme approved, stipulating that legislative procedures shall become “virtual” through the use of information technologies (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 63/2006, of 18th May).
- The Council of Ministers' Rules of Procedure amended to take in, among others, making legislative procedures “virtual” through the use of information technologies (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 64/2006, of 18th May).
- 29
- The legal regime applicable to distance contracts for financial services defined (Decree Law No. 95/2006, of 29th May).
- June
- 2
- Working group set up to prepare a preliminary draft law setting up the National Procurement Unit and respective statutes (Order from the Secretary of State of the Treasury and Finance No. 11830/2006, of 2nd January).
- 9
- Creation of the electronic post box public service (Decree Law No. 112/2006, of 9th June).
- 16
- State Electronic Certification System – Public Keys Infrastructures (SCEE) created (Decree Law No. 116-A/2006, of 16th June).
- Diário da República made available in an electronic version on the Internet with free and universal access, the ability to print out material, search and save, and the stipulation that the paper publication shall terminate, all acts subject to publication in Diário da República shall be sent electronically, the 3rd series shall end, and the DIGESTO legal database shall be made available by registering directly on the electronic Diário da República site. (Decree Law No. 116-C/2006, of 16th June).
- 24
- Online delivery of injunction procedures regulated (Ministerial Decree No. 728-A/2006, of 24th June).
- 29
- Approval of Enterprise Online, whereby enterprises can be set up 100% online (Decree Law No. 125/2006, of 29th June).
- IT records of acts by chambers of commerce and industry, lawyers and solicitors regulated (Ministerial Decree No. 657-B/2006, of 29th June).
- Regulation for naming, operating and functions of the Internet site enabling commercial companies and civil law companies of a public or private limited nature to be set up online (Ministerial Decree No. 657-C/2006, of 29th June).
- Portugal rises in the European Ranking for the Online Availability of Public Services, from 13th to 10th place in the EU25.
- 30
- Paper format Diário da República replaced by the electronic edition available on the Internet, end of the publication of the 3rd series and the 1st and 2nd series reorganised (Law No. 26/2006, of 30th June). Processes for sending acts for publication in the 1st and 2nd series of Diário da República made virtual and rules set for the organisation and publication of acts in the 2nd series (Normative Order No. 38/2006, of 30th June).
- Launch of the complete service for setting up an enterprise online (Enterprise Online), developed UMIC: Enterprise Online - Enterprise's Portal.
- Enterprise's Portal made available with the innovative Enterprise Online Dossier service, developed by UMIC: Enterprise Online - Enterprise's Portal.
- 2
- August
- 28
- Portuguese Electronic Passport launched a mere 15 months after the project began.
- 28
- September
- 21
- The I Action Plan for the Inclusion of Disabled or Handicapped People from 2006 to 2009, I PAIPDI 2006-2009, approved (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 120/2006, of 21st September).
- 21
- October
- 11
- 13
- Authorisation granted for the contracts between the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CMU – Carnegie Mellon University and UT Austin – University of Texas at Austin to be signed for research and education programmes and the corresponding expenditure in 2006-2011 (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 132/2006, of 13th October).
- 25
- 27
- CMU – Portugal Programme launch, which focuses on Information and Communication Technologies and foresees a virtual international institute called the Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI), whose activities shall include: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information networking, Critical Infrastructures and Risk Assessment, Information Security; Computer Science, Language Technology, Technical Change and Innovation, Mathematics, Technical Change and Innovation.
- 30
- New working group called GT-UMTS set up to monitor compliance with the obligations taken on by bodies holding licenses for operating 3rd Generation international mobile telecommunications systems based on the UMTS norm in the scope of the public tender held in 2000 in the context of developing and promoting the Information Society in Portugal. Validation Committee set up, which will be responsible for analysing and validating projects within the given scope (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 143/2006, of 30th October).
- 1st meeting of the IGF – Internet Governance Forum, organised by the UN in Athens from 30th October to 2nd November.
- November
- 1
- Call for tender launched for R&D Projects in the GRID Computation field.
- 3
- Internet Spaces Network Meeting held at FIL, which marked the beginning of organising the more than 1000 Internet Spaces set up chiefly with the support of various POSI/POSC actions and measures into an integrated network.
- 6
- 11
- INGRID’06 Day – 11th Nov 2006 on the National GRID Initiative in Braga.
- 13
- Creative Commons arrive in Portugal through a partnership between UMIC, FCEE-UCP and INTELI.
- 29
- 1
- December
- 15
- 19
- Regulation for promoting online trade register acts, the creation of a permanent certificate available on the Internet, simplification of and increasing transparency in the process of subscribing to the trade register which shall henceforth be available for consultation and is updated and available on the Internet (Ministerial Decree No. 1416-A/2006, of 19th December).
- 20
- Pre-filled in tax declarations sent on the Internet made viable, documents sent electronically given legal value as part of the tax procedures, virtual acts and procedures using new Information and Communication Technologies (Decree Law No. 238/2006, of 20th December).
- Launch of the Online Trade and Permanent Certificate Register on the Internet.
- 22
- Online Brand Register service launched.
- Major changes to the finance model and availability of RCTS in 2007 at UMIC's request to simplify its administrative and accounting procedures.
- The National Programme for eProcurement closes the year more than tripling the total amount negotiated the previous year and more than doubling the sum of the totals from the three previous years since the programme was launched in 2003. Purchases of a total 41 million Euros were negotiated from the launch of the programme until the end of 2006 with savings of 20% in 103 aggregation and negotiation processes. The programme was extended to all ministries and involved 918 bodies.
2007
- January
- 5
- Protocol signed between UMIC and Autodesk to make licenses for for Autodesk Software Free to Higher Education Students, Professors and Researchers.
- 17
- National Accessibility Promotion Plan approved (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 9/2007, of 17th January).
- Elimination of mandatory judicial intervention to reduce share capital in commercial companies, creation of the Simplified Company Information system (IES), which combines in one single act the obligation for companies to provide different Central Government bodies with annual accounting and tax information through four different channels. This can now be done in one go, thus getting rid of the need to request the issuing of a new certificate of admissibility of signatures when the company's headquarters moves to a different municipality (Decree Law No. 8/2007, of 17th January).
- 26
- Presentation of Simplex 2007 – Programme for Administrative Simplification.
- 5
- February
- 5
- Citizen’s Card created (Law No. 7/2007, of 5th February).
- 6
- Requirements laid down for requests for criminal record certificates and their respective electronic transmission to the criminal identification services of the Directorate-General for Justice Administration (Ministerial Decree No. 170/2007, of 6th February).
- 13
- Location and installation conditions regulated for those services that shall receive requests for Citizen’s Cards in the period prior to full national roll-out (Ministerial Decree No. 201/2007, of 13th February).
- The official and exclusive model for the Citizen’s Card established, together with physical security features, technical and security requirements when taking the facial image and fingerprints of the holder and means of including citizens with special needs in the information society (Ministerial Decree No. 202/2007, of 13th February).
- Citizen’s Card validity and applicable fees established(Ministerial Decree No. 203/2007, of 13th February).
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- Launch of the Citizen's Card on Faial island, Azores, a mere 20 months after the project began.
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- Electronic declaration model in the scope of IES - Simplified Company Information created (Ministerial Decree No. 208/2007, of 16th February).
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- National Public Procurement System (SNCP) established and the statutes of the ANCP - National Public Procurement Agency, EPE, were created and approved (Decree Law No. 37/2007, of 19th February).
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- March
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- UT Austin – Portugal Programme launched, which involves an International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, CoLab, includes a network to galvanise activities marketing science and technology (University Technology Enterprise Network, UTEN) and takes in three PhD programmes (in Digital Content, Advanced Computing, Mathematics) and an annual professional Master’s programme in Digital Content.
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- April
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- Launch of the open-access scientific and academic information repository at the Universidade de Évora, the Universidade de Évora's Scientific Repository.
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- Launch of the Harvard – Portugal Programme which, among others, foresees the joint creation of digital content on health care and sciences and making it available to the public.
- Launch of the Fraunhofer - Portugal Programme with a memorandum of understanding signed between FCT, UMIC and the Fraunhofer Company for a joint programme involving the setting up of the 1st Fraunhofer Institute outside Germany, which shall engage in applied research in “Technology, Applications and Services for Ambient Assisted Living”.
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- Waiver approved, with regard to public services, for presenting certificates proving regularised tax or contributions status when this information is available on the Internet in a regulated fashion (Decree Law No. 114/2007, of 19th April).
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- European Union National ICT Research Directors Forum and High Level Event on R&D in ICT and Globalisation, in Berlin, with high Portuguese turnout.
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- AMA - Agency for Administrative Modernisation, IP, set up.
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- Terms laid down for the electronic transmission of information in the scope of IES - Simplified Company Information (Ministerial Decree No. 499/2007, of 30th April).
- Automatic register of rendering of accounts regulated in the regulatory framework for online trade register acts (Ministerial Decree No. 562/2007, of 30th April).
- IES – Simplified Company Information launched on the Internet.
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- May
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- 1st IBERGRID Conference.
- Electronic signature forms and IT systems to be used in IT judicial procedures stipulated for magistrates and judicial secretaries (Ministerial Decree No. 593/2007, of 14th May).
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- Technical conditions laid down for the issue, preservation and archiving of invoices or equivalent documents issued electronically (Decree Law No. 196/2007, of 15th May).
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- June
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- e.escola (e.school) programme launched, based on payments from mobile telecommunications operators stemming from the allocation of UMTS licenses in order to facilitate the purchase of laptops and mobile broadband connections for 10th year students, elementary and secondary school teachers and New Opportunities Programme trainees.
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- July
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- Universidade do Porto’s Engineering Faculty CSIRT.FEUP set up, the 2nd response team for IT security incidents in Portugal to be accredited internationally. Previously, the RCTS CERT.PT at FCCN was the only one.
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- Public presentation of the Internet Segura (Safe Net) Project and the corresponding public information portal and hotline (project coordinated by UMIC, with the participation of FCCN, CRIE and Microsoft Portugal).
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- Decision to set up the Fraunhofer Institute in Porto.
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- Advanced Services over Broadband workshop - from Installation of Infrastructures to the Effective Use of Advanced Services, organised by UMIC.
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- August
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- Extension of the FCCN backbone in fibre-optic cable concluded with the Porto-Viana connection from Castelo- Valença, thus providing a FCCN fibre-optic connection to the polytechnic institute in Viana do Castelo. At the same time, the Portuguese part of the connection to the Spanish research and education network is finished through Galicia.
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- Legislation on access to administrative documents and reuse thereof (Law No. 46/2007, of 24th August).
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- September
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- Legislation laid down on Central Government social protection systems electronically sharing data and checking mandatory contributions and social security payments are made and on the introduction of measures to simplify the Portuguese civil servants retirement and survivor pensions funds and to remove red tape (Decree Law No. 309/2007, of 7th September.
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- Education Technological Plan approved (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 137/2007, of 18th September).
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- AAL – Ambient Assisted Living Association set up in Brussels,with UMIC as a founding member and representing Portugal.
- Ministerial eGovernment Conference, in Lisbon.
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- Portugal jumps to 3rd and 4th place in the European Ranking of Online Public Services, respectively in the full availability and sophistication of online services, from 10th and 11th place respectively, which it reached in 2006, with improvements after having slipped down the table between October 2001 and October 2004.
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- Online Patent Register launched.
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- Approval for buying trademarks online (Decree Law No. 318/2007, of 26th September).
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- October
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- Launch of the open-access scientific and academic information repository at the Universidade do Porto, the Universidade do Porto Repository.
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- Guidelines for accessibility of Government and Central Administration services and public bodies’ websites for citizens with special needs laid down (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 155/2007, of 2nd October).
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- e-Infrastructures Open Workshop, in Lisbon.
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- 2nd Meeting of the EUROMED Forum on the Information Society held in Brussels, with an opening intervention by the Portuguese Presidency of the EU.
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- November
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- 3rd Innovation Days, organised by the Innovation Agency with UMIC funding at FIL.
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- 2nd meeting of the Internet Governance Forum staged by the UN, following on from the Tunis Summit on the Information Society, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 12th – 15th November, with Portugal coordinating the EU position.
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- Meeting of the EU Council of Science Ministers approves several strategic initiatives, under the Portuguese Presidency, including ICT-related aspects.
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- December
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- Ministerial Meeting on European eInclusion Policy, in Lisbon, organised by UMIC and the European Commission.
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- UMIC and Autodesk sign a Protocol to facilitate Autodesk software use in Higher Education.
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- Virtual one-stop shop set up for tip-offs about criminal activity to the GNR, PSP and SEF law enforcement and security forces (Ministerial Decree No. 1593/2007, of 17th December).
- Interoperability Platform for the Central Government starts operating, providing services in the scope of the Citizen’s Card, with uses in other situations as well.
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2008
- January
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- Public Contract Code (CCP) approved, which, among other aspects, reshapes the public procurement regime to fit e-procurement (Decree Law No. 18/2008, of 29th January).
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- February
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- Creation and 1st seminar of the Series of Seminars on Public ICT Policy Research.
- The FCCN challenges institutions connected to RCTS to activate all their basic Internet service systems (DNS; e-mail and www) to the new IPv6 protocol and launches a page monitoring the migration process to IPv6.
- Launch of the Portuguese Low-Cost Computer for 1st Cycle Students.
- March
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- UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency, IP becomes one of the FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation’s members and joins its Board of Directors. The other members are: Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), CRUP - Council of Vice-Chancellors of Portuguese Universities and LNEC - National Civil Engineering Laboratory.
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- e.escola (e.school) programme continued and extended to 11th and 12th year students and young people with special educational needs (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 137/2007, of 19th March).
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- April
- May
- June
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- Ministerial OECD Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 17th – 18th June.
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- Bell Laboratories in Portugal Memorandum of Understanding signed.
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- July
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- The Instituto Pedro Nunes Systems Informatics Laboratory’s CERT.IPN also joins the list of CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams) maintained by TERENA – Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, although it is not yet accredited.
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- Principles and general rules laid down for communications and information and data exchanging and storing, as foreseen in the Public Contract Code (Decree Law No. 143-A/2008, of 25th July).
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- Launching of the First Cycle Computer, named “Magalhães”, by the Portuguese Consortium JP Sá Couto – Prológica, in partnership with the multinational Intel, designed for half a million Primary School students in Portugal under the scope of the new e.school (e.escolhinha) programme and the international market.
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- New b-on - online Knowledge Library site: More user-friendly and with better accessibility.
- Legislation on aspects of the Public Contracts Code (Directives No. 701-X/2008, of 29th July).
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- Strategic priority awarded for Portugal to invest in New Generation Networks and guidelines for the development of and investment in this type of network (Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 120/2008, of 30th July).
- RCTS connected to the European research and investigation network GEANT2 at 10 Gbps, quadrupling RCTS international connectivity and allowing an eightfold increase over the international connectivity (1.2 Gbps) available between January 2004 and October 2005.
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- August
- October
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- Microsoft and the Portuguese Government sign a Memorandum of Understanding, which includes, inter alia, an agreement on the Microsoft and Microsoft Software Research Chair for Higher Education Students.
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- Memorandum of Understanding signed by FCT, UMIC, Ciência Viva and Toshiba-Portugal on setting up a Toshiba Research and Learning Network.
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- Start of the 5th eCommerce Week, organised by ACEP and UMIC.
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- TSF Forum dedicated to eCommerce, featuring the President of ACEP – Association for eCommerce in Portugal and the President of UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency, PI.
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- Digital Business Conference Lisbon'08, organised by ACEP and UMIC.
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2009
- January
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- 1st New Generation Networks for the Country Made Available to the Academic System, Higher Education and in 4 Rural Areas, sponsored by public bodies with the support of UMIC and co-financed by POSC Community Funds, Science Technology and Society Network (RCTS) of FCCN, in e-Science, and 4 New Generation Community Networks, in e-Inclusion.
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- Joint Portugal-Spain Committee for e-Science Cooperation, in Madrid, to analyse the progress made and plans to be developed under the scope of the cooperation with regard to IBERGRID, voluntary computing, supercomputing, education and research networks and open access scientific repositories.
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- February
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- Session to Open the European Year of Creativity and Innovation in Portugal, with the invited guest speaker, Don Tapscoot, on "Governance 2.0: How the Internet Generation is changing governance, innovation and democracy".
- Public Tender to Receive Initial Proposals for Setting Up and Operationalizing R&D Consortia opened jointly by FCT and UMIC, concerning areas which have involved significant ICT contributions.
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- Sun Microsystems Portugal Research Network and the Sun Academic Initiative, the first of its kind set up through the protocol established between FCT, UMIC and Sun Microsystems and the second through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Ministers of Labour and Welfare, Education, Science, Technology and Higher Education and by the Coordinator of the Technological Plan, and by Sun Microsystems.
- European Safer Internet Day 2009 commemorated in Portugal by activities coordinated by UMIC through the Safer Internet (site in Portuguese) Project and the Internet Spaces Network (site in Portuguese).
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- Accessibility Guidelines for Web 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 of the W3C) Content Published in Portuguese through the initiative of UMIC, thus ensuring that Portuguese is the third language in which the new Guidelines were published in the world, following only English (original) and Hungarian.
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- March
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- Access to Part of b-on Made Available to the University of Cape Verde through the cooperation protocol signed between UMIC, FCCN, ANACOM – ICP and the University of Cape Verde.
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- April
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- ICT at the 12th Iberian-American Conference of Ministers of Culture, on the role of new technologies in the promotion of Shared Languages and Multiculturalism.
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- Mai
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- Digital Economy Seminar for SMEs – 1st European SME Week 09, held in Porto and organized by DGAE – the Directorate-General for Economic Activities in collaboration with The Institute for Support to Small and Medium-Sized Companies (IAPMEI – Instituto de Apoio às Pequenas e Médias Empresas), IP.
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- Benefiting from a Safer Internet: national activities organised by UMIC, to commemorate the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, on the theme of safe Internet surfing for young adults, organised by the UNO – the United Nations Organisation. UMIC decided to extend the celebrations to other sectors of the population starting on this day and for the rest of the week, by using its networks and its partnerships with others, in particular the Internet Spaces Network, the Solidarity Network and the Safer Internet Consortium.
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- Portugal Becomes a Member of UN CSTD, through the election of the President of UMIC, Luis Magalhães, to the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD).
- Sun Microsystems Joins the UMIC-promoted Higher Education ICT Academies.
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- 3rd IBERGRID Conference held in Valencia, Spain.
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- Launching of the Harvard Medical School – Portugal Program with the aim of promoting clinical research and its implementation and subsequent impact on Medical education and specialized medical practice; promoting the dissemination of medical content and the transfer of health knowledge and, in particular, to the general population; developing an innovative content management system to be made available on the Internet.
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- Public launch of the “Microsoft” Invited Chair in the area of information and communication systems with applications to the health sector.
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- e-University: Laptops for Students and Teachers in Higher Education is launched by Toshiba in collaboration with the companies Prológica, Microsoft and Autodesk, and UMIC.
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- June
- 06
- Portuguese Experts Present at Sensor Networks Conference organised by the OECD, organized in Lisbon.
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- Publication of the detailed results of the 1st questionnaire into ICT use in Hotel and Catering Establishments, jointly sponsored by INE – the National Statistics Institute, and UMIC.
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- 4th Working Days on Innovation and the Closure of the 2nd Portuguese Presidency of EUREKA, with a major focus on ICT.
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- 1st Annual CMU-Portugal Conference: "Boot and Re-Connect”, focused on processing and information networks, software engineering, information networks, information security, computational language processing, networking and sensor technologies, public telecommunications policies and technology innovation.
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- July
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- New b-on Portal: 100% Compliant with W3C web standards, made available online.
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- New R&D Institute Established in Madeira as Part of the Carnegie Mellon – Portugal Programme, with activities in Computer Science, Interaction and Entertainment, and drawing on the success obtained by the dual Master’s Programme in Human-Computer Interaction promoted by the University of Madeira as part of the Carnegie Mellon – Portugal Program.
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- Ceremony to mark the delivery of 1 million laptops as part of the school, teacher and opportunities programmes, just two years after being started in June 2007. In addition, this also marked the delivery of 370 thousand “Magalhães” computers as part of the junior school programme, only a year after being launched.
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- Recent RCTS Developments Made Public by FCCN. This was recently carried out with financing and management support from UMIC and also with the support of POSC (the Knowledge Society Operational Programme) community funds.
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- Science 2009 – Portuguese Encounter with Science: Topics in Focus as Part of the Internet of the Future, organized jointly by CLA, the Council of Associated Laboratories, and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, with the involvement of FCT and UMIC.
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- IBERCIVIS Initiative: Citizens Donating Computer Time to Science is launched in Portugal, as a result of a project developed in cooperation with Spain and jointly implemented in Portugal by CNC – the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, LIP – the Laboratory for Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics and FCCN, under the guidance of UMIC.
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- August
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- With the addition of the Paediatric Unit of the Santo André Hospital in Leiria there are now 22 Paediatric Hospital Units Covered by the “ICT Paediatric Project”, promoted by FDTI and launched on 27 December 2005.
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Graphs showing progress in selected Information Society indicators
Internet Penetration in the Population – Total and Broadband: total, cable+optical fibre+mobile(active users), optical fibre+mobile (active users), mobile (active users)
%, Customers in the total population, in each semester
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Notes: Blank entries have values calculated by linear interpolation for graphical representation purposes.
Active mobile broadband users refers to customers who can access to mobile broadband Internet
and actually connected to the Internet at least once in the preceding month.
Source: ANACOM.
Broadband Penetration in the Population ≥ 10 Mbps in EU Member States
1st January 2011, (%)
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Note: Data for Austria is of 1 July 2009 (latest available data).
Source: COCOM, DG INFSO, European Commission, June 2011.
Mobile Broadband Penetration in the Population in EU member states - Dedicated data service (cards, modems, keys only)
1st January 2011, (%)
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Source: COCOM, DG INFSO, European Commission, June 2011.
Active Mobile Broadband Penetration in the Population in EU Member States
1st January 2011, (%), Number of customers (residential and nonresidential) who actually used mobile broadband in the past month per 100 inhabitants
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Note: No data available for France.
Source: COCOM, DG INFSO, European Commission, June 2011.
Internet Penetration in the Households (Total and Broadband)
%, Households with at least one person aged from 16 to 74.
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Source: EUROSTAT.
Computer Penetration in the Households
%, Households with at least one person aged from 16 to 74.
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Source: EUROSTAT.
International Connectivity of the RCTS - Science Technology and Society Network (1996-2002)
Giga bits per second (Gps), in July of each year
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Source: UMIC - Knowledge Society Agency, P.I., based on information from FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation.
International Connectivity of the RCTS - Science Technology and Society Network (2002-2008)
Giga bits per second (Gps), in July of each year
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Source: UMIC - Knowledge Society Agency, P.I., based on information from FCCN - Foundation for National Scientific Computation.
Institutional Repositories in the Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal
Number of institutional repositories at the end of each year
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Source: UMIC - Knowledge Society Agency, P.I..
Documents in Scientific Open Access Repositories in Portugal
No. of documents at the end of each year
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Source: Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC)
No. of Students per Computer in Elementary and Secondary Education (Total, w/ Internet connection)
No. in the academic year beginning in the indicated year.
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Source: GEPE - Office for Education Statistics and Planning.