To wrap-up this trilogy about Brazilian Social Security implementation, I will now go through the three most relevant endeavours being carried by the country’s national social security agency (INSS), in its efforts to deal with the challenges described in my previous post. All of them are strongly reliant on information systems, which are actually delivered […]


Establishing a reliable and encompassing national social security system in a country like Brazil is a massive, multi-generation endeavor. In this blog, I describe the four most important challenges the Brazilian National Social Security Agency – INSS struggles with, being it the main federal government instrument to operate both social insurance and social assistance benefits.