São João del-Rei, Tiradentes, Ouro Preto Transparentes

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Apresentação do Projeto

"...it is possible to build innovative forms of social organization, based on democratic, inclusive, emancipatory principles that seek sustainability. In this way, organizations, people and groups from all parts, from local to global, can combine their talents, vocations and resources around common objectives and strengthen the action of all." Networks, WWF

Summary:
Being noble means having identity: sociocultural inventory | Local/Global Collaborative Network pro-2030 Agenda
The city we dream of is the city we can build

Transparent Cities — Collaborative Network pro-2030 Agenda
A living sociocultural database that maps, connects and preserves the memory, best practices and public policies of historic cities — local identity interacting with the guidelines of the global agenda.

The pilot project "Being noble means having identity / São João del-Rei, Tiradentes and Ouro Preto Transparentes" is a research-action initiative grounded in sociocultural transparency, with more than four decades of investigation and recording (since 1983), consolidated as a digital platform in 2000, with thousands of registered hyperlinks connecting local and global initiatives.

Structured in complementary layers:
Through a collaborative digital inventory, the hypermedia platform records best practices, cultural manifestations, consistent public policy indicators and their impacts — organizing, connecting and integrating local content into the global scenario. Drawing on diverse methodological references such as the exemplary GMI — Multidimensional Integrated Governance model of IEPHA's Cultural ICMS in Minas Gerais, replicable across Brazil's 5,570 municipalities, the project democratizes access to data integrated with the UN 2030 Agenda and ESG principles.

With a focus on ethics and transparency, it contributes to strengthening local protagonism and safeguarding collective memory. By uniting technology and multicultural sustainability, the initiative promotes the informational flow of participatory democratic initiatives, leaderships and actions that favor an independent local-global alliance — community-validated control with equal conditions through ICTs — in favor of human rights protection and the preservation of historical legacy in a scalable and innovative way.

The country we dream of is the country we can build.
Project summarized in the book: Book/e-book "Being noble means having identity"

More information:
. Project "Being noble means having identity"/Atitude Cultural/more than one thousand sociocultural actions carried out and inventoried | Alzira Agostini Haddad
. Hypermedia book/e-book "Being noble means having identity" summarizing the entire project | Alzira Agostini Haddad/Atitude Cultural
. Book, Exhibition, Database/Portal: History of launches, media, team and project actions
. Exhibition "Being noble means having identity"/IMAGES
. Institutional video of the Project: the city we dream of is the city we can build
. Video "Being noble means having identity"/São João del-Rei Transparente: Past, a present for the future
. Network/Database/Sociocultural Inventory: São João del-Rei | Tiradentes | Ouro Preto Transparentes

This project has represented Brazil on numerous occasions, including:
. Vila Nova de Gaia / 14th Ibero-American Congress of Qualitative Research / CIAIQ 2025; 8th Scientific Symposium of ICOMOS-Brazil: 60 Years of ICOMOS + 60 | November 05–08, 2025; Salamanca/Spain/2024; Paraty/Flip 2024; III International Congress "Cities in History", Guimarães/2023; 5th ICOMOS/BRAZIL Symposium and 2nd ICOMOS/LAC Symposium: "50 Years of the World Heritage Convention: achievements and challenges in the Americas/2022"; International Congress on Democracy JUST2021; 12th Forum of Masters and Advisors — Local Action/2021; "Virtual Forum on Territorial Information Systems" Latin America and the Caribbean/2012; Cultural Dialogues: hacia la profesionalización del gestor cultural; classified in the "Dubai International Award for Best Practices 2012" — category "Good Practice" / UN-HABITAT — United Nations Human Settlements Programme and the Municipality of Dubai; National Meeting of Cultural Managers, Córdoba/Argentina/2011.

Participated in the Preparatory Meetings of the 1st WSIS — World Summit on the Information Society / Geneva / 2003, held in Curitiba, and in the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Meeting Preparatory to the 2nd World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society / Bilbao / São Paulo discusses access to information / 2005. Among others, in Granada, Buenos Aires, Resistência/Argentina and various Brazilian cities. Nominated "Mineira de Ouro" in the 2013 edition of Jornal Estado de Minas and TV Alterosa.

Presentation:

The "Being noble means having identity" Sociocultural Database/Inventory records, correlates and makes content available, contextualizing it in a scalable way for the region, the country and the world. A mosaic of data, images and manifestations that tell the trajectory of masters, groups and entities, weaving threads of time and local/global histories. A research-action project that seeks primarily to map culture and heritage; connect, strengthen, disseminate, engage, give projection and voice to each citizen, each project and every community. It seeks to generate a coordinated and ethical Local Network of Social Technology with innovative collaborative competencies in favor of environmental, economic and sociocultural safeguarding and sustainability through sharing, logistics, cross-referencing, articulations, joint initiatives, research, investigations and exchange of information and data: integration.

As a voluntary research-action pilot project, we inventory and make available on the internet — in detail and interactively, year by year — as an example of feasibility and viability, our own best practices since 1983/Atitude Cultural São João del-Rei, recording reports with historical data, images and media of the more than one thousand actions and projects we have developed, events and actions linked to the rescue and valorization of the main cultural manifestations and popular and erudite traditions, always with themes related to cultural identity and its preservation: the Year-End and Holiday/Cultural projects | Holy Week Cultural/Street Carpet/Flowers | Old-fashioned Carnival | "Delícias de Antigamente" Project | Documentaries, etc., totaling in sociocultural actions:

Classical and popular music / music in the square / 97 | Performing arts, seminars, meetings, research and cultural manifestations / 133 | Living workshops / 40 | Atitude Cultural tributes / 60 | Photo books "Memory Albums" / 30 | Exhibitions / 80 | Scenographic installations / 34 | Documentaries and Short Docs / 56 | Graphic pieces for heritage education / in print and virtual versions / 65 | Cultural participations and community partnerships / 270 | Coordination of the Heritage Education Project MAS — Sacred Art Museum / SESI DN / Atitude Cultural / 200 joint actions.

All these actions, as well as all recorded content, are summarized in the book "Being noble means having identity", through in-person and virtual exhibitions, launches and various actions.

Networked, capturing, adding and interconnecting local/global — São João del-Rei, Tiradentes, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, World:

Best practices: Culture and Heritage / Economy / Education / Environment / Health / Sociocultural Responsibility / Tourism / Campaigns / Others
Best products and services: Art and Crafts / Culture and Tourism / Music / Gastronomy / Theater / Health / Others
Cultural agenda with event history
Legislation / Master Plan / Heritage Charters
Leaders and patrons
Publications: Articles / Booklets / Books / Theses / Monographs
Research | Campaigns | Ombudsman
GOs and NGOs / Institutions, entities, associations, cooperatives
Municipal / State / National and International Councils, among others, via collaborative registrations

Sociocultural identity and memory in our projects are focused on actions and the importance of integrated connection of local/global efforts and solutions, cooperation agreements — we are an example of several projects via the Lei Rouanet, inventoried uninterruptedly and completely since 1983. We understand that everything involving our training, research, project development, pre-production, production, post-production, media and dissemination, accountability — actions and knowledge generated mostly with public resources — needs to be empowered and made freely available on the internet; proving, disseminating and connecting with efficiency and effectiveness the initiatives of this important cultural policy.

We believe that the implementation of references, indicators and inventories following local/global guidelines such as those of IEPHA/Cultural ICMS, IPHAN and the UN 2030 Agenda is the promising path that seeks to interactively consolidate community-legitimized content sources, always aiming at the importance of preservation, security and safeguarding of sociocultural heritage, urban landscape and heritage education.

We believe that this legitimized data can help suppress revisionism that attempts to rewrite history to erase inconvenient facts.

The Book/e-book "Being noble means having identity" that summarizes this project innovates technologically and pedagogically through thousands of QR Codes and hyperlinks connecting and deepening content, enabling access to and inclusion of local/global experiences that unfold infinitely. It features numerous citations from historians, philosophers and researchers, with a careful selection from among 50,000 photos illustrating the actions carried out — largely sponsored by Cemig through the crucial Lei Rouanet Cultural Incentive Law/MinC.

An integrated connection that favors decentralization, self-regulation, digitalization, organization, transparency, conservation, interlocution and access to old and contemporary archives. It contributes to multi-leadership and the credibility of official and non-official sources, avoiding the endless recording of the same content without connecting it. Interactive transparency portals legitimize demands, actions and projects beyond theories, identifying best practices, contradictions and discrepancies, sharing and strengthening a more democratic and convergent equity policy.

An expandable, regulated base of content — a verifiable and planned support network — contributes to a potentially more reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI), capable of permanently managing and monitoring fundamental initiatives and indicators such as the SDGs — Sustainable Development Goals; ESG — Environmental, Social and Governance; HDI — Human Development Index. A research-action project developed voluntarily since 2000 that presents alternatives, vulnerabilities and necessary permanent updates, but which aims to combine all persistent efforts in the hope of breaking with what nations have been experiencing regarding violations of human rights and fundamental principles of Humanity.

Alzira Agostini Haddad

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

Database and Images from www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com, the SJDRT Portal / Full text in the hypermedia Book/e-book "Being noble means having identity" that summarizes the entire project

This is a voluntary pilot research-action project developed since 2000 in São João del-Rei, Estrada Real, Brazil. We seek to create a Database replicable in other cities, for the permanent collection and processing of data and images of erudite and popular, ancient and contemporary cultural identity in a networked/intelligent way. A participatory digital inventory, interactive, detailed and integrated laboratory that records and correlates this data and research-action images with cultural collectives for the dissemination of contextualized and interrelated information and knowledge. The construction, synergy, consensus, organization and democratic mapping of local content are fundamental for better planning, regulation, definition and defense of structuring social public policies, heritage policies, channels, mechanisms and instruments of participation, so that urban actors and currents of interest operating in cities can exercise their rights while respecting the collective interest.

In our experience, we have found that only from the local sphere can a practice become possible that encompasses all these urban issues, strengthening the faithful mapping and review of records and reports across the vast range of points in our own network — a scalable Database for the region, the country and the world. Involving and giving voice to each citizen, each project and initiative, each group and every community through engaged guardians, capable of generating a coordinated, efficient and effective Social Technology Network of collaborative competencies in favor of environmental, economic and sociocultural sustainability. With an integrated vision and system of key indicators — multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, low-cost and easy to implement — combining data, technology and innovations promotes access and inclusion, reducing waste, anomie and duplication of work — improving checklists, avoiding the endless rebuilding of the same content and reinventing the wheel. Through successive and rich hyperlinks, we seek to assist the community in knowing the city, aiming to identify, valorize and disseminate through the network the best practices, best products and services, research, ombudsman services, accountability, projects, sociocultural manifestations, publications, legislation, campaigns, cultural agenda, media and more — recording and cross-referencing reliable and secure sources, interacting content, indicators and various Councils — Municipal, Federal, International — and their leaderships.

Urban landscapes face numerous risks of demolitions, constructions or restorations without criteria, compromising their identity, erasing their references, memories and the lessons that all of this represents. We have numerous gaps in issues and actions related to declared or undeclared Heritage of Humanity, in architectural masterpieces and works of all kinds. Databases can contribute to identifying, mapping and strengthening goals and criteria in all fields — such as registering vulnerable Historic Cities on a possible List of Singular Heritage in Danger — in favor of safeguarding communities also threatened by serious and concrete risks related to accelerated degradation, large public or private construction projects, predatory real estate speculation and destruction caused by various sociopolitical changes. There are many intersectoral efforts for a more equitable and respectful world, recorded in thousands of initiatives that can be reapplied, in major meetings, seminars, congresses, summits etc. that have culminated in important commitments.

It is vital that synergistic actions be undertaken toward a local/global political consensus of cooperation, enhancing initiatives, security, recognition of the importance of advances and their dissemination in defense of the fragile and vulnerable human conditions and legacies. A local Database has the singular power to permanently interconnect spokespersons, enhance the reach and credibility of official and non-official community sources, legitimizing their demands, actions or projects carried out beyond theories, identifying contradictions and discrepancies, complementing and strengthening a more democratic and transparent equity policy logic. An expandable, regulated, verifiable and planned content base contributes to a potentially more reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI), capable of managing and permanently monitoring indicators such as SDGs — Sustainable Development Goals; ESG — Environmental, Social and Governance; HDI — Human Development Index, which can validate more consistent practices, recording and aligning edifying local/global initiatives and public policies ad infinitum. Every city, group, project and institution needs to have its own Database/Portal as complete as possible — for example, the Portinari Project.

Self-regulation and self-adjustment are imperative insofar as each person is responsible for the content they publish, since decentralization and multi-leadership are inherent to a network system (Networks, WWF). The necessary structure of a policy to protect collective interests and material and immaterial heritage must extend to the investment, adherence, regulation, availability and protection of research and digital data collections, memories, documents, heritage and environmental assets subject to the vicissitudes of time, the contingencies of current culture, the inconceivable lethargy, waste, errors of incompetence, setbacks and dismantling, negligence, inadequate and inconsistent policies, and incoherent or uncommitted practices.

The permanent risk of necessary technological updates to portals and Databases, the autonomy of less democratic or informed managers, the lack of communication and more consistent methodologies in records, leave their content and resources vulnerable — potentially deleting and irreversibly decimating decades of achievements and studies. This can be compared to the burning of libraries and museums.

It is a privilege to always count on the main sociocultural actors, selfless masters of our community, institutions, various segments of professionals and partners, to have the opportunity to participate in courses and congresses, to benefit from scholarships and participation in numerous initiatives in favor of education, culture and national and international heritage — seeking to honor what has been taught and learned. An ongoing process, there is much to add, update, reconsider and above all to be grateful for — this bond that represents our identity, our life and our integrity. We dream and do our part for more connected, intelligent, humanized, sustainable and transparent cities and communities.

Credits: team of the Project "Being noble means having identity" 2024
The complete credits of the teams, partners, supporters and sponsors of Atitude Cultural's actions are recorded for each action developed.

Alzira Agostini Haddad: creator and Database manager / general coordination
www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br | Atitude Cultural Projects and Social Responsibility

Administrative team:
Eliane Agostini Monteiro | Neyla Bello | Érica Cipriano | Wander Pastorini Haddad

Support team:
Isa Agostini Haddad | Hugo Agostini Haddad

Content development / support 2024:
Ulisses Passarelli | Betânia Nascimento Resende | Ana Cristina Ferreira | Luiz Cruz | Silvana Peixoto

Database / programming:
Bernardo Barreto Berg | Giovane Damaso / dbWebhost / Sinoweb

This project was supported in its implementation in 2000 by the Government of the State of Minas Gerais through the then Governor Aécio Neves; with resources from Embratur and, for the project's Image Database, we received the support of then Federal Representative Reginaldo Lopes via the Ministry of Tourism / CEF — Caixa Econômica Federal.
In 2025, with the sponsorship of the Lei Rouanet Cultural Incentive Law / Cemig.

www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br

Original text: Alzira Agostini Haddad
English translation support: Oráculo / ICL — Instituto Conhecimento Liberta, 2025

Summary:
Being noble means having identity: sociocultural inventory | Local/Global Collaborative Network pro-2030 Agenda
The city we dream of is the city we can build

The country we dream of is the country we can build.
Project summarized in the book: Book/e-book "Being noble means having identity"

Translation support: Oráculo ICL-Instituto Conhecimento Liberta, 2025

The city we dream of is the city we can build: empowerment of local / global transparency:
www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br
Alzira Agostini Haddad/History of participations and awards of the project . Atitude Cultural
Video Transparent São João del-Rei . To be noble is to have identity

The Data Bank www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br is a voluntary project that we have been developing since 2000 in the historic city of São João del-Rei, The Brazilian Capital of Culture 2007. Our aim was the create a project that would serve as an applicable model to other cities in order to collect data and images (locally and globally) in a tangible, sustainable, permanent, efficient and professional way. This would involve an integrated digital inventory updated on daily basis that registers academic researches, public consultations, the main news and facts to be shared, respecting the organizations and leadership actions, the international governing guidelines of publishing knowledge, TICs-Information Technology and Communication - ESG, Agenda 2030. It is vitally important to build, organize and map out the demographic contents for a better planning and execution of public policies, channels, mechanisms and tools that allow for a respectful participation of urban actors and special interest groups that function in cities. Our focus: actions and results aiming at supporting the community by knowing its culture, identifying and treasuring its best practices and best local / global products and services, social-cultural expressions, reliable data source, registering and crossing data provided my interactive corporations. (SDG 11). Dreaming and doing our part for more connected, intelligent, humanized and transparent cities and communities - always valuing and protecting their wealth, with all autonomy, strengthening and being strengthened by regional, state, federal and international dimensions.

We find it that we need an urgent change of heart concerning our active historical participation in discussions related to both citizenship, environment and our heritage, a fact that raised a few questions:
How to make our community a better place to live and help prevent violations and under inconsistent governance?
How to provide a better access to information and have an unbiased comprehension of facts?
How to avoid setbacks concerning public decision making as well as help maintain actions and attitudes that can benefit the community as a whole?
How to provide interactive registers of a wide range of global knowledge engaging a practical technological innovation that allows for social interaction concerning human and urban environments?
When will grand theories, treaties, discoveries and experiences be consolidate into sustainable public policies, build up a solid and respectful economy and applicable social practices?
How to organize data and facilitate concepts and criteria, techniques and methodologies used for a better understanding, legislation, guidelines, news, agendas - increasing a network that allows for partnerships, cooperation under the guidelines of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

"The center is everywhere", Nicolau de Cusa, Século XIII
Our experience shows that a local initiative is fundamental in answering these questions and enabling a truly reliable data base to register, catalog and collect a wide range of research, collaborators and concerns within its own network and, consequently, expand it to the region, country and the world. This might benefit the preservation of the local singularities, scenery, territories, environmental resources as well as cultural and touristic features, factors that will lead to the protection of its richness. It is worth pointing out that autonomy is strengthened by both regional, national and international dimensions – past, present and future synchronized in time, actions to register and incorporate the new digital era in order to expand and share a substantial amount of material that will allow for open dialogues concerning contextualized historical facts, material analyses, debates that may enable a more comprehensible take on issues such as fragments, legacies, heritage, biographies, profiles and a sheer variety of archives. Another point is providing activities to teach conservation techniques, build rapport among various social, cultural, education and institutional sectors by inviting the community to contribute with their ideas, attitudes, projects and initiatives so that each one has their own works recognized and treasured.

Networks and Data Base Banks: collaborative sharing
It is important to recognize the challenges of building an extensive network of sharing data. On the hand, it is also important to mention that efforts have been made and determination has been instrumental in meeting such needs by systematizing the best way possible all human construct: researches, studies, data, information social-technology digital and catalogs of documents with immense historical, social, artistic, cultural and scientific value. History, education and culture constantly generate facts that allow for legitimate experiences by acting upon the issues presented as well as alternatives and effective solutions. Despite the difficulties and complexities faced, not only have the development and maintenance of institutional portals been providing excellent contents but also enjoying great benefits a network may offer. Self-regulation and self-adjustment are inputted in the sense that each one of us is responsible for what they publish in a both inter and hipper connected network which decentralize and contribute to the system welfare (Networks, WWF). An online service, with an integrated, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary and low-cost implementation system, promotes information and innovations that make inclusion access available, a fact that will avoid content repetition and maximize data storage. As for the sheer variety of contents, each group or institution should have their own data bank/portal as thorough as possible. A "Big Data" channel that is fully integrated in a system is extremely important so that access is available to citizens, organizations, local governments and international communities – a transparent and democratic kaleidoscope.

Making the Best of it
As a network of content consultations under constant construction, a global local interactive digital portal will serve everyone permanently, connecting cities, countries and the world on a daily basis, as we have been insisting on doing since 2000. We made efforts to maximize the pace, staff and equipment to develop our project, as we are well aware of the need to keep it going, to extend and expand the research, in the hope that women's involvement will become more active in various fields. Without sponsorship and with a lot of perseverance, we have been doing an interactive and complete digital mapping of the actions of countless instances and projects in the city:

CULTURAL AGENDA: Daily local and regional, Permanent Events and Events History
BEST MUNICIPAL, STATE, FEDERAL and INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES: Education, Campaigns, Culture and Heritage, Economy, Environment, Health, Tourism, Socio-cultural Responsibility, Miscellaneous
BEST MUNICIPAL, STATE, FEDERAL and INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS and SERVICES: Music, Arts end crafts, Culture end Tourism, Cuisines, Theater, Health, Miscellaneious
OGS end NGOs: Complete registry of the main institutions and associations, for instance, Municipal Council for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of São João del-Rei
LOCAL RESEARCH . GLOBAL RESEARCH
MUNICIPAL, STATE, FEDERAL and INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION
LOCAL and GLOBAL PUBLICATONS: registration of articles, booklets, books, theses and monographs, urban personalities, various
MUNICIPAL, STATE, FEDERAL and INTERNACIONAL OMBUDSMAN: Education, Campaigns, Culture and Heritage, Domestic Violence, Environment, Health, Tourism, Socio-cultural Responsibility, Miscellaneous
LOCAL GLOBAL LINKS of Organizations that contribute to AGENDA 2030
IMAGE BANK : Cultural Attitude's sócio-cultural projects, Music Week in São João del Rei, Artes end Crafts, Campaigns, Cultural Attitude's Exhibitions: Being noble is having an identity . Virtual Gallery, Global Virtual Gallery, Local Virtual Gallery, Cuisine, OGS end NGOs, Ombudsman, Uncharacterize Urban Landscape Local/Global, Preserved Urban Landscape Global Arhitecture, Preserved Urban Landscape Local Architecture/Brasil, Plants, Flora, Fruis, Various Projects Cultural, Publications, Itineraries and Special local/regional places, Old São João del-Rei . Preserved São João del-Rei . Uncharacterized
UFSJ-Federal University of São João del-Rei with research and projects

Our Data Base highlights:
. Garbage in São João del-Rei . Clean São João del-Rei Campaign - I do my part!
. SOS City, volunteers are sought, patrons
. Political Guidelines for the Preservation of the Historic Center of São João del-Rei
. Commercial signs, posters, awnings and advertising devices in the Historic Center of São João del-Rei/in line with the global effort to preseve the urban landscape of historic tourist centers
. Media with news clippings
. Tips for those who want to build, renovate, restore, or paint their property
. Education in São João del-Rei, Surroundings and in Minas Gerais
. Master Plan of São João del-Rei
. Architects, engineers, construction companies, brokers . São João del-Rei
. Graphic pieces of heritage education
. Folia de Reis end Pastorinhas's Meeting
. São João del-Rei Railway Complex
. The Italian presence in São João del-Rei end Minas Gerais
. Orquestra Lira Sanjoanense - founded in 1776 in uninterrupted activity until today. It is considered the oldest in activity, in the Americas and the 2nd oldest in the world, the first being a German orchestra

CULTURAL ATTITUDE/accontability - detailed records of research/actions developed as shown in this various cultural actions: New Yar Celebration and Cultural Holidays, Cultural Holy Week/Street Carpet/Flower, Carnival of old times, Project Being Noble is having identity, Documentaries:

Database and Images / Digital Network Inventory Portal: www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br: São João del-Rei Transparente - for alignment of Best Practices around the world/Transparência Brasil/Transparência Internacional/Agenda 2030...
Past Project, a present for the future, action research project:
Carnival of yesteryear, Cultural Holy Week, Project "Delights of old Times" e New Year and Cultural Holidays
Events and actions aimed at past cultural manifestations and folk traditions all of which closely linked with cultural identity and its preservation.
Project To be noble is to have identity: In loco and virtual exhibitions, documentaries, graphic pieces of heritage art-education and action-research. Data collection and processing of images, techniques, social actors, institutions, artists, authors, artisans, academics that stand out from the socioeconomic development as well as the cultural preservation of São João del-Rei. This, in turn, leads to a thorough social-cultural inventory of the city produce whose pricing is symbolic and reverted to institutions and social groups. Classical and popular music / music in the square: 97/ Performing arts, meetings and cultural events: 124/ Living workshops: 40/ Tributes: 60 . Homenageados . Atitude Cultural/ Graphic pieces of heritage education / paper and virtual version: 61/ Exhibitions: 72/ Scenographic installations: 34/ Documentaries: 56/ Cultural participation and partnerships: 249.

We have tried to compile several intrinsic interests of a historical city full of cultural and natural richness as well as conflicts concerning heritage issues and its preservation such as urban escapes, commerce, private and collective interests, which it always poses great challenges. We have many local examples of both real and virtual actions that somehow involve schools, communities, institutions, the media, counsels, the universities, e.g.: the MAS-Museum of Sacred Art Project: cultural activities, the work provided by Virtual Era, which develops Multimedia Systems and virtual visits to museums, video snippets such as the development of pewter in São João del-Rei, the History of Tin Art in São João del-Rei, digital media such as Tencões e Terentenas, Old São João del-Rei - and the network Tomorrow's Forum, situated in Tiradentes, that provides a range of actions and archives to that matter. Documentary Exhibitions of the National Digital Library, BNDB-National Digital Library of Brazil, Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services-CARINIANA, Abong - Brazilian Association of NGOs, ICOMOS Brazil, Museum of the Person, RETS-Electronic Magazine of the Third Sector, Colab Startup of collaborative management, RedeGov.br. International Transparency, WHO-World Health Organization, CIF ILO-International Labor Organization, Europeana.eu. Europe's cultural and scientific portal, Global Citizen, Datapedia, World Digital Library, United Nations Expert Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), WWF, UNESCO Memory of the World Program, World Social Forum, Learning Passport - UNICEF, Wikipedia, ISO, IDH Global, Google, Microsoft/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 15-20 minute Cities, Smart Cities. Cambridge University contributing to a quality and continuing educational process, Nações Unidas: Lançando a década de ação em 2020 on 75th Nações Unidas and on 5th Anniversary of 17 Objetivos de Sustentabilidade: Which inter-sectorial efforts are required to fulfill the decade of action and ensure that the Global Goals are achieved by 2030? Reference portals and networks that solidify the need of a digital world and its ad infinitum potential. A lot of work, generosity and hope.

Memory, Identity and Human Rights
A TICs-Information Technology and Communication allows us to synchronize data and speed up research more efficiently as well as go public about services, researches and catalogs, campaigns, indexes, criteria and regulations. This alone facilitates diagnoses, evaluation parameters which may favor public consultations, capacitating courses and workshops, social inclusion, organizations interactions, collaborative economy, data integration, systems and profiles, follow-up platforms and accountability. Obviously, there factors that directly affect the development of urban practices and increase human misery: costs, economic and social losses due to lack of planning, wrong or false information, broken or lost data, analog researches and studies, actions that do not observe sustainability, continuation, interactive and historical records that neither have been properly publicized nor developed. Such a thing needs to be approached and better contextualized in a way that exchange of knowledge is more consistently achieved and accessible so that the network experience is maximized and locally/internationally legitimized. By doing our part in the development of an integrated Technological Social Network we allow ourselves to notice how beneficial these attitudes can be in order to collect/Record, raise funds, follow criteria/parameters and sustainable actions under democratic terms. Recently, the Transparência Brasil has launched a policy paper with recommendations to guarantee governance and transparency concerning the use AI by the government. Many initiatives have trying to unify and complement each other by following guidelines and cooperative actions to justify their own existence and face the challenge of breaking the violations that history and nations have been suffering in terms of mankind principles. There are joint efforts for a better world recorded in reapplicable initiatives that can be found in Declarations and Patrimonial Letters, such as the United Nations Charter.

Emancipation. It is vital that synergistic actions are implemented so that a local/global cooperative political consensus is achieved in order to maximize initiatives, improve security, recognize publishing advances and protect fragile and vulnerable conditions of human legacy. We still have big gaps concerning Humanity Heritage such as all nature architectonic arts, migrations, poverty, domestic, urban and environmental violence. Also, natural disasters like floods, landslides, pandemics, fires (Museu Nacional in 2018) that cause irreparable damage to communities’ memories, data, documents, heritage, the environment and the kind, most of which victims to negligent parties, setbacks, dismantling, waste of resources, big errors and inadequate, inconsistent policies .
Unfortunately, local governments fail to observe the dimension of the heritage built and the urban scenery face risks of demolitions, constructions and restorations that do not follow a certain criteria, affecting their identity, erasing past references, memories and lessons.

The necessary structure of protection policy must be extended in the investment of preservation and protection of digital records. A bill of law may end it in a split second and more often than not we realize that data have been removed from portals as an excuse of ‘site update’ by authorities who are less sensitive to heritage evidence as well as to the path followed to achieve this legacy. Our portal is not provided with several links due to the reasons mentioned above. The so-called updating process has cause damage in the sense that one click my delete decades of research, studies and records preventing the world from discoveries, revelations and benefits. If a functional network is not available, such data may get lost, incinerated or trashed as their authors pass away. When such online network is available, one may access it and incorporate records to their own lives.

Our City: São João del-Rei
"City of Music", The Brazilian Capital of Culture 2007, built up its architectural and cultural heritage due to the work of masters and citizens, consolidating its historical-cultural importance in the country. We have traditional institutions and social groups that develop valuable projects and spread our vast and rich heritage. In our historical São João del-Rei we have really important records and documents that belong to other institutions - Minas Gerais Public Archive, National Archives, National Library and cities like Ouro Preto, Mariana etc. We have already been denied access to documents or sections of newspapers and the kind as describe in this case: São João del-Rei want to retrieve baptism book from Tiradentes. Documents of this nature should be digitalized and shared with the rightful institutions whose main aim is to enrich their local data bank especially with archives that can be used by the local community, researchers and students. We understand that hard-copies are difficult to make available to general public, yet digital records are one big step towards this end. The connections and links may be an answer to credible references, a solid base for data collection of institutions, the ever-growing co-construction, protection and benefits pf these records. We have been facing financial issues that remove portals, which might happen to thousands of Data Banks, including our own portal, as we all the Portinari Project, which do not get funded by public policies and run the risk of phasing out.

It is necessary to treasure the work done in terms of registry and publishing in inclusive systems. It is also fundamental that grant more access and visibility to social productions and protagonists like Candido Portinari, son to Italian immigrants who projected the human soul and the identity of Brazil to the world, devoting his sensibility, talent, health to more than 5 thousand works of art. In the last decade of his life, already intoxicated by paint and contrary to his doctors’ orders, he managed to contribute his masterpiece to humankind – War and Peace – exhibited in the UNO signaling possible blessings and guidelines to the world. His only son dedicates his life to develop Portinari Project, the most acclaimed contemporary Brazilian artist, set himself to make public his father’s, 95% of which not known and spread all over world within private collections: digital processing of his works accounts for his paintings, over 30 thousand documents authenticated which resulted in the publication by Raisonné Catalog "Candido Portinari – complete works", first publication of this nature in Latin America.

So profound, interconnected and complex are the universe and the technological network potential under the Gaia concept that Planet Earth has an integrated organism which is amplified in all fields of knowledge and perception of life. It is necessary to ensure the consolidation of social development by promoting seminars, conferences, meetings and manifestations so as to show social and scientific as well as single initiatives that may compromise their effective implementations.

Issues such as assertive, non-standardized or established publications may impair a broader and more complete access. The universe plastic arts, museums, films, theaters, events, concerts face difficulties in publicizing or selling their products and services. A more coordinated proposal of technology use may assist such movements by making their services, agendas and programs available with a knock-on benefit of selling tickets, products and the kind. There is usually little f2f attendance while there is an awful lot of quality artistic manifestations concerning education, concerts, festivals and seminars. To make matters worse, we face impediments of different natures that minimize the spread and commerce of unique local products. The pandemic has certainly opened and accelerated virtual windows and doors and helped establish a vast menu of sociocultural activities and collaborative economy.

We need to ensure that the actions are not only economic-oriented, but mainly as a collective interest. Like a chain reaction, the Data Bank, a magical democratic tool of data collection, may pave the way to more coherent, effective and efficient developments of public policies. The need for communication lead men to create language and culture. This can be applicable to ITC on the grounds the need for records on humankind evolution and construction should be made so as to integrate and establish connections among communities under local/global guidelines, Agenda 2030 acting locally, thinking globally. It is vital to have an international cooperative attitude to speed up sustainable development in countries, internal policies and actions in order to feed education, increase capacitation and awareness, create and maintain mechanisms of international cooperation and increase the capacity of strengthening juridic mechanisms to mediate ideal governance and conflicts.

One cannot expect governments without solid basis or structure, generally unprepared and lacking responsibility to contribute to ethical practices within a disconnected system. Nor can we sit and watch Don Quixote keep on fighting to win a battle against totalitarian, corrupt and fragile governments that do not bear in mind economic-social-environmental and cultural equality spread all over the world. On the other hand, we respect and recognize the power of patrons, governments, institutions and companies that have a serious and committed approach to facilitate our daily lives, a fact which make it possible for worldwide communities to have their own free Data Bank that can help organize their history synchronously and their best practices in a more efficient and consolidated way.

As we only have a support group, we hope to have partnerships interested in supporting and reapplying the project that can be enhanced by technological advances and the attitudes of the people who built and build our cities. Since data collection is solidly stored, classified using a universal methodology, such references will allow for a more unified global village using a unified technological language to establish discussions, dialogues and communications as a whole. In this era of Information Technology and Social Development, participation and transparency are of paramount importance.

"...it is possible to build forms of innovative social organizations based on democratic, inclusion and emancipating principles aiming at sustainability. Thus, organizations, people and groups from local to global may join their talents, vocations and resources towards a common objective in order to strengthen our actions"
Networks, an introduction to the dynamics of connectivity and self-organization 2003 . WWF

Credits:
. Alzira Agostini Haddad . Founder and manager of the portal / general coordination
. www.saojoaodelreitransparente.com.br
. Atitude Cultural Projetos e Responsabilidade Social

All the actions on this portal are registered by collaborators, supporters, sponsors and partners.
Support Team and Internship:
Ana Cristina Ferreira, Hugo Agostini Haddad, Isa Agostini Haddad, Eliane A. Monteiro, Carol Argamim Gouvêa, Ligia A. Silveira, Elis A. Monteiro, Anna Júlia Silveira, Monique da Silva, Andressa Ferreira Pinto.Special thanks to: Walquíria Domingues
Database Technical Crew: Bernardo Barreto Berg . dbWebhost . Sinoweb
Thanks to: Wander Pastorini Haddad, Leonardo Barci Castriota (UFMG), Antônio Emílio da Costa, Mauro André Santos, Paulo Cabral, Andrea Neves, Valéria Cordeiro.
This project was supported by Governo do Estado de Minas Gerais via Governor Aécio Neves, using resources from Embratur. The project image bank Banco de Imagens was supported by Congressman Deputado Federal Reginaldo Lopes, who provided resources via Ministério do Turismo and CEF- Caixa Econômica Federal.

We would like to thank all the parts who have directly and indirectly contributed to this project: family, friends, team members, collaborators, partners, sponsors, supporters, Minas Gerais State Government and everyone who is involved in preserving our natural, social, artistic, architectural and cultural heritage in Minas Gerais State.

Yes we can! Agenda 2030 . Alzira AH
The family we dream of is the family we can build.
The street we dream of is the street we can build.
The city we dream of is the city we can build.
The country we dream of is the country we can build.
The world we dream of is the world we can build.

Translation: Adriano Zanetti