Brazil joined Digital Nations, the international forum of digital government leaders founded in 2014, on Thursday, 5 November 2026, in Tallinn, Estonia. The country is the 11th to join the group, which brings together the digital governments considered the most advanced in the world.
Brazil's participation is an initiative of the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI), in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE). The delegation was led by the MGI's Secretary of Digital Government, Rogério Mascarenhas.
“It is a source of great pride for Brazil to be selected to take part in this select group of countries, and it can help us a lot in this digital future,” Mascarenhas said during the accession event.
Why Brazil was admitted
According to the MGI, the deciding factors were the scale of Gov.br, with more than 179.5 million active accounts as of October 2026, the more than 5,390 digital services available, and the capacity to coordinate with states and municipalities. The National Digital Government Network (Rede GOV.BR) grew from 163 municipalities to around 3,000.
The group had ten member countries: Canada, Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. With Brazil's entry, the forum now brings together eleven nations.
Artificial intelligence and sovereign cloud on the agenda
Mascarenhas stressed that discussions with the other countries will cover the future of digital, focusing on artificial intelligence and clouds. Brazil's priority agenda includes sharing experiences on AI models in public services and developing the Brazilian Sovereign Cloud, a project to centralise critical intelligence, public security and data systems.
The accession comes in the same week Serpro reported that Gov.br faced the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack volumes in its history over the past semester, with no service interruption and no data leak, as Geekiki reported.
Image: Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia, where Brazil's accession to Digital Nations took place. Photo: Ivar Leidus, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.
Sources
- Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services — Brazil joins “Digital Nations”
- ALT Digital LATAM — Brazil joins the global forum
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