{"id":226841,"date":"2016-11-22T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=226841"},"modified":"2016-11-22T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:23:16","slug":"from-two-ministries-to-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/from-two-ministries-to-one\/","title":{"rendered":"From two ministries to one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_226843\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-226843\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Estrat_Gilberto-Soares_Flickr_MCTI.jpg\" alt=\"Gilberto Kassab: Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Estrat_Gilberto-Soares_Flickr_MCTI.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Estrat_Gilberto-Soares_Flickr_MCTI-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Estrat_Gilberto-Soares_Flickr_MCTI-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\"> GILBERTO SOARES\/FLICKR\/MCTI<\/span>Gilberto Kassab: Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications<span class=\"media-credits\"> GILBERTO SOARES\/FLICKR\/MCTI<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The scientific community has criticized the merger between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the Ministry of Communications after a reform cut the number of federal government ministry portfolios from 32 to 24. A statement issued by the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) said the merger was artificial. The document, signed by biochemist Helena Nader and physicist Luiz Davidovich, who chair the SBPC and ABC respectively, indicated that \u201cthe MCTI agenda is based on criteria of scientific and technological merit [&#8230;]. This system is unlike the Ministry of Communications\u2019 system, which involves political relationships and management practices that have little to do with everyday MCTI activities.\u201d The reform aims to curtail government spending. Former S\u00e3o Paulo mayor Gilberto Kassab heads the new ministry. The minister defended the merger at a May 25, 2016 meeting with researchers, including Helena Nader from the SBPC, Marco Antonio Zago, president of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), and geneticist Mayana Zatz. \u201cThere is considerable synergy and linkage between communications, science, innovation and research,\u201d Kassab says. The scientists argued that the merger could affect states and municipalities and lead to disruptions in their science and technology departments. Funding allocation is another concern. The estimated 2016 budget for the National Science and Technology Development Fund (FNDCT) is about R$1 billion, compared to R$3.01 billion in 2015. \u201cWe discussed program continuity and holding the ministry\u2019s budget at levels of previous years,\u201d Helena Nader says. Some positions in the ministry have already been filled. Engineer Elton Santa F\u00e9 Zacarias is now executive secretary and \u00c1lvaro Prata, former president of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, is Secretary of Technology Development and Innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists criticize the merger of MCTI with the Communications","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[256],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-226841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-public-policies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226841"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=226841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}