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  • Open Congress   : a tool for political scientists to track the work and effectiveness of 
  
  the Brazilian congress 
  
  • Paraguay: Who Do We Choose?: lists profiles of all candidates for many public posts. 
  
  In Brazil, the principle that*"what is not confidential should be available on the Internet in the open*
  
  *data format"*is already discussed and, in principle, accepted, by some departments of the Brazilian 
  
  federal government. However, the preferred practice for now is (if there are no other obstacles) to 
  
  only publish data that have been explicitly requested by some citizens. 
  
  A report presented in May 2011 at the First Global Conference on Transparency Research 
  
  mentioned a couple of Open Data issues in Latin America that are worth noting, because they're 
  
  present even in Europe and North America, in spite of the different historical and social 
  
  background: 
  
  •  "Better coordination is needed between right to information campaigners and open data 
  
  activists." 
  
  •  "If activist manage to target particular topics to add "value" to the discussion, demand for 
  
  open data could eventually increase in the region." 
  
  In Africa, mobile phones are much more available, and more essential than computer with Internet 
  
  access, often bypassing the need for real desktop PCs with many applications. Therefore, from a 