Instituto Atlântico is a non-profit civil society, with the major objective of providing society with scientific and technologic solutions. It acts in the Telecommunications and Information Technology areas, aiming at the development, progress, and well-being of the Brazilian society. With a team composed mainly of local professionals with high academic qualifications, all of them registered as researchers at CNPq (the Brazilian National Research Council), Atlântico fulfills its commitment of being an active party in the development of the State, encouraging local professionals to stay in their home cities.