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The Project

The Name

AKAN is a word originated from a Tupi (brazilian indigenous people) term, Akangatu, which means memory, intelligence.

The Motivation

The intention of the choice of the name comes from the team believe that democracy is only as good as who has the ability to elect also is able to remember who they elected and, above all, keep up with of those who they elected. This is the concept behind AKAN.

Project Origin

The project had its origin in the discipline of Portfolios and Project Management and Software Development Methods, both taught by Professor Hilmer Neri at the University of Brasilia, Faculty Gama (FGA). In both disciplines there is a project that integrates with the intention of, at the end of the semester, get a real product using open data from the Brazilian Government and the law on access to information ([Law No. 12,527 / 2011] law_number_12527_2011).

With the end of the courses the team kept the development of the project, to allow the visibility of public data to its biggest stakeholder, the Brazilian people.

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