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Procempa (short for Porto Alegre's data processing company) is a public company which provides communication and information technology services to the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. story.

History

Founded on the 9th of September, 1977 by former mayor Guillermo Villela, it started out as a public data processing enterprise out of the idea to modernise some public facilities. Back then, it was highly centralised around town hall-related businesses. Nowadays, provides a wide array of services to nearly every government agency at town level. Throughout its history the company has provided services to several areas of the municipal administration, mostly solutions within the field of information technology in order to address public needs in Porto Alegre. in addition, it has come to include provision of IT-related service oriented towards the private sector.

In addition to its supporting role in the evergrowing business of Information Technology at public facilities, Procempa is also in charge of the city's own internet provider: Portoweb. It is also a strong supporter of the use of free software vice paid commercial software applications. Since the inception of Unix-based systems in the early nineties, Procempa has widely contributed to the city's growth through the steady implementation of Custom-developed information systems to be used at schools, town agencies etc In August 2001, the Company started implementing a descentralised TCP/IP network (703 km long as of 2011) aimed at reaching out to previously unattened districtal regions within city bounds, eventually coming to include even some adjacent cities in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre.