I spent a day visiting CELEPAR with my Rotary club president
Isis and another Rotarian, Andretta. This is a private informatics company that
takes care of most of the IT and
informatics of the state government and also is working on expanding to work
with local municipal government. Since I am living in the largest city and
capital of the state (Parana) I am lucky to have a lot of cool opportunities
such as this one.
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| Me and Andretta |
The company develops the different web interfaces used in
all the state government agencies. They also have a huge data center that
stores all the information needed for the government. I got to go in and see
all the servers and other technology equipment.
It is in a conditioned room with incredible security. The room it is all
in is a sort of safe that is bulletproof and should withstand explosions. It
has also been tested and was surrounded in fire for half an hour and everything
inside was fine. I don’t know all that much about this sort of technology, but
it seemed quite modern and advanced technology-- see some photos below.
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| largest fire extinguisher ever |
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| Andretta, Isis and me in the data center |
CELEPAR also managed a hi-tech teleconference conference
room for the government. It is a room where the governor and state delegates
can meet and is in the beautiful state government palace. I got to sit in the governor’s chair :]
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| In the governor's seat |
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| Isis, me and Andretta in the state executive government building- just a little bit of marble |
I also got to see how they do the programming, their support
call center, their fingerprint analysis center and where the print and
distribute tickets (when you get a ticket you don’t get pulled over, the police
officer just notes the infraction and your license plate and the ticket is
mailed to your house).
All in all, it was a really cool visit. I guess it was sort
of a big deal for them too. They sent a woman with us for about half the day
taking pictures and wrote up a press release/ article that they posted on their
website and in their news letter. I’m famous! You can see the article here-
