ABES and Think Tank articles

Software taxation and innovation in cities
Dr. Saul Tourinho Leal
Partner of Ayres Britto Legal Consulting and Advocacy

2022: a year that promises timid but indispensable growth – Rodolfo Fücher
Rodolfo Fücher
President of the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

Article: Cyber risks and cyber insurance, by Carlos Sacco (ABES)
Carlos Sacco
ABES Relationship and Services Director

Tax debtors: put the beards to soak. SIRA to accelerate tax foreclosures
Manoel dos Santos
Legal Director of ABES – Brazilian Association of Software Companies

M&A: the ball of the time
Rodolfo Fücher
President of the Brazilian Association of Software Companies

Exponential Waves and Digital Resilience
Rodolfo Fücher
President of the Brazilian Association of Software Companies

First year of the LGPD: progress has been significant but much work remains to be done
Thomaz Côrte Real
Member of the Legal Department of ABES and Partner of the law firm MASantos, Côrte Real e Associados

Inequality: the villain is not innovation but society – Article by Rodolfo Fücher
Rodolfo Fücher
President of the Brazilian Association of Software Companies

Brazil's socioeconomic development depends on specialized labor
Jamile Sabatini Marques
Director of Innovation and Development at ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) and researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA)

We need to accelerate inclusive digital transformation
Andriei Gutierrez
Coordinator of the Regulatory Committee of ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) and Co-founder and Coordinator of Brazil, Digital Country

Cloud security without a great team is nothing
Lauro de Lauro
Marketing Director at ABES - Brazilian Association of the Software Industry

Tax regime and tax incentives will help unlock the potential of IoT in Brazil
Werter Padilha
Advisor to ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies)

Given: hero or villain? Dilemma of contemporary society
Rodolfo Fücher
President of ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies)

Taxation of software in the STF: the tax due is ISS
Saul Tourinho Leal
Doctor of Constitutional Law, partner at Ayres Britto Legal Consulting and Advocacy and legal advisor at ABES

The power of associativism in the 2020 results for the technology sector
Rodolfo Fücher
President of ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies)

Just being digital is no longer an option
Rodolfo Fücher
President of ABES
Pandemic cannot divert focus from the adequacy journey to the General Data Protection Law
* By Thomaz Côrte Real The COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the already widespread health problems, also brought significant impacts on global economic activity. This is because one of the main measures encouraged by the Health Bodies to try to contain contagion by ...
Skilled labor is necessary for the economic and social development of Brazil
* By Jamile Sabatini Marques We are living in a polarized moment when it comes to jobs in Brazil and in the world: while companies in the technological sector lack qualified labor, there are a large number of people looking for ...
Technology in Brazil: development and prosperity on the one hand, shortage of labor and legal uncertainty on the other
* By Rodolfo Fücher Brasil, the country of the future that never arrives, or has arrived and someone hid it? As the world's breadbasket, the country has immense potential for the development of several sectors. Now, we need to focus on ...
Software Registration at INPI: easy, cheap and overlooked
By Dr. Manoel Antonio dos Santos * It is undeniable that the more digitalized the modern society becomes, the greater relevance the software deserves, the main actor in this intoxicating sector, since the computer program is present in everything ...
The future of AI will depend on smart decisions
Photo credit: tamasmatusik on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-ND * Andriei Gutierrez Around the world questions how the authorities should treat Artificial Intelligence (AI). Should AI be guided by some minimum parameters? It should ...
The complex relationship between the tax matrix and the IT sector
By Dr. Manoel Antônio dos Santos, legal director of ABES One of these afternoons, at the headquarters of ABES, while we were talking about pleasantries and savoring a coffee and cake, I heard a symptomatic phrase from a businessman from the IT sector who was among us: “Manoel,.. .
The challenge of transforming software for cloud adoption
By Lauro de Lauro, marketing director and coordinator of the ABES Saas Committee The great challenge for software companies, founded in past decades, is to live with their extensive codes, processes and methodologies ...
Foster innovation for Brazil to grow again
By Jamile Sabatini Marques, director of Innovation and Promotion at ABES Innovation generates competitiveness in the national and international market, creates new markets and generates new forms of consumption. Encouraging innovation ...
The future has already started at exponential steps. Is our state prepared for it?
11/02/2019 By Andriei Gutierrez, Leader of the Regulatory Committee of ABES, co-founder and coordinator of the Movimento Brasil, País Digital We started 2019 with a new government and, together with it, with new expectations. The yearning for ...
ABES participation in the ICANN business group
By Paulo Milliet Roque, Vice President of ABES Since the end of 2017, ABES has been approaching the business sector of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the institution responsible for coordinating ...
Compliance: the consequences of irregular software use
By Thomaz Côrte Real, lawyer specializing in Digital Law * According to data from the BSA Global Software Survey | The Software Alliance, 46% of software installed on Brazilian computers is not properly licensed, which ...
The advances provided by the Brazilian Personal Data Protection Act
By Andriei Gutierrez, coordinator of the Regulatory Committee of ABES and co-founder and coordinator of the Movimento Brasil, País Digital After eight years of debate, on July 10, the Bill on the Protection of ...
BNDES Card as an alternative to foster innovation
By Jamile Sabatini Marques, Director of Innovation and Promotion at ABES Fostering innovation is essential for a country's economic development. Developed nations have increasingly allocated ...
SaaS, the god of destruction! Which companies will survive the "death valley"?
By Francisco Camargo, President of ABES Software companies are going through a period of intense transformation. According to estimates by ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies), 40% of members ...