2010 International Conference on Information Society, 2010
DOI: 10.1109/i-society16502.2010.6018735
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Economics and technology have strongly restructured software development setting. In the last years the movement toward globally distributed software development has gathered a fast pace, which can be verified through the geographic distribution of such projects among several organizations, both big and small. This paper presents a proposal of including Amazonas State Brazil, so far known only for housing the greatest piece of the world’s greatest rain forest, as a participant agent in global software development projects, offering an alternative source of sustainability to Amazonas State’s economical development.