Network Access
The Brazilian Urban Poor have typically found it difficult to afford a personal computer and a phone line to access the Internet. The Government Brazil, in partnership with local ISPs and financial institutions, must take steps to make accessing the internet more affordable. The average monthly rate for basic dial up service is $26.96 and would even be considered high by U.S. standards. The Brazilian government needs to pursue their plan of producing basic personal computer systems in the $200 range. In the mean time, Internet access should be made widely available in public locations such as libraries and public universities. Furthermore, the recent trend of banks offering free dial service to their customers is very positive and could go a long way to getting millions more Brazilians online.

Networked Learning
 Support and enhance other US/Brazil Education Partnerships activities, especially exchanges between Brazilian and the US educators and actively participate in Partnership meetings.
 Establish and strengthen links between multiple Brazilian educational programs and encourage improved use of educational technologies within these activities.
 Organize, carry out and participate in conferences, seminars and workshop in the US and Brazil that increase an understanding of the effective use of computer and Internet technology in education.
 Seek out and enable partnerships among US corporations and Brazilian counter part institutions and the Brazilian education sector.
 Reach out to and expose US educators to Brazilian experiences with educational technology applications and facilitate collaborative links between US and Brazilian educators to exchange experiences and perceptions about using computers and the Internet to improve teaching and learning.
 

Networked Society
 Due to the expensive internet use, caused by the inefficiency of the Brazilian telephone networks, the majority of current internet users in Brazil are the upper classes. The internet use will be more widespread in Brazil if they can lower the cost of phone calls. The privatised telecom company will improve these numbers in the long run.
 Brazil should provide incentives to those local companies that create additional local content on the World Wide Web, since not all of the Brazilian internet users know English. Therefore, increasing local web sites can help in expanding the internet usage among all segments of the Brazilian population.

Networked Economy
 Promote entrepreneurial activities to generate more job opportunities such as data entry services. Increasing tradable data entry sectors can offer significant possibilities for employment in Brazil.
 Brazil needs to improve on the low B2C revenues. In order to gain more e-commerce revenues, Brazil needs to focus on the security of the online transactions as internet users are wary of giving their credit card numbers online.

Network Policy
“The government of Brazil can take credit for this success of its complex restructuring of the telecommunications industry. This has included reorganizing the state telephone holding company Telebras into: three regional wire-lines, ten separate regional A-band cellular companies, and a long distance carrier; which were privatized through auction. “(Lerner, p 3)
In the near term, the government should give immediate policy consideration to strengthening intellectual property laws, which are not currently adequate, and rarely enforced. Additionally, legislation needs to be passed with regards to legitimizing electronic contracts and signatures to make them legally binding. This will not only lure more Brazilians online, but it will also draw in more offshore companies to Brazil that might currently be reticent because of legal uncertainties.

Offshore Outsourcing:
It is our analyisis that Brazil is not quite ready for the type of offshore outsourcing that India has undertaken over the past decade. One major difference is the widespread lack of strong English skills. Another issue is the prevailing wage in Brazil for IT realted work, which is higher than that of China and India, for the most part. Despite a highly skilled and experienced scientific community, Brazil lacks conformity to certain international software standards like SMM. Brazil’s unique strengths with regard to outsourcing lie more in the engineering and manufacturing side of computing