Proposal to qualify IPTI as a state Social Organization

** report 2-2009

We are submitting our proposal to be recognized by the state government of Sergipe as a Social Organization (OS), which means to establish a public-private partnership around social activities. This request is based on a “business plan” where show how this partnership should work as well as we show our perspective for the financial sustainability and we also submitted the new statement of IPTI containing all requirements from the OS state law. This is a final (almost) step from a long and productive process of negotiation between IPTI and the state government and we came with the definition of an OS as the best approach to this partnership. Becoming an OS will make much easier for IPTI to develop project of public and social interests as well as it will be much easier for the government as it will count with a development partners to conduct their policies in the south region of Sergipe.

As soon as IPTI become an OS we will start to have a Board of Managers which composition will be based on representatives from public sector and from the civil society. The first composition of this board will be of 7 members representing:

• State Government of Sergipe – Secretariat for Development, Science and Technology (SEDETEC)
• City Government of Santa Luzia do Itanhy
• Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC)
• Sergipe Technological Park (SergipeTec)
• Entrepreneur Forum of Sergipe
• Competitive Movement of Sergipe (MCS)
• IPTI

Below you find the organogram defined for the new structure of IPTI:

As you see we proposed the creation of a advisory board named Board of Interested Parties (Conselho das Partes Interessadas) which will be composed by representatives of all sector of society, including international organizations. The aim of this board is to create a forum where all organizations that have interest on the IPTI activities can come with demands on innovations need to be developed to face social problems (in education, health and creative economy), to engage efforts to make possible the projects defined as priorities as well as to disseminate the results of the projects developed in Sergipe.

The new structure will have an auditing board (Conselho Fiscal) and we proposed an external auditing (Auditoria Externa), to assure transparence in the application of all funds managed by IPTI as an OS.