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Goodbye to paper!

Thácia Nascimento’s daily routine is not easy. It requires atten- courses, in Sanitation and Work Safety – she applied for the Federal
tion to detail, dedication and great concentration when analyzing University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and was offered a place on the
contracts, bids for tender, payments and other matters that pass Economics course. This is how she developed a passion for public
through her hands. Her great ally in this mission is technology. The accounts.
work is done 100% online, without anyone having to use a single This passion motivated Thácia to make a career change at
sheet of paper. Suape. Whenever there was a break in her tasks as a member of
- During the pandemic, I was a hybrid worker, and it was no pro- the surveying team, she worked as a volunteer in the administrative
blem. Everything was done remotely and ran perfectly smoothly. sector. Although she will not graduate until 2024, she has decided to
One important mechanism in this machine is the Electronic In- put what she is learning at university into practice. In August 2019,
formation System (SEI), introduced by the Federal Government in she officially joined the company’s accounting team. Her next step
2018 and subsequently adopted by the States. Suape has created was, two years later, to take the post of technical accounts manager.
its own protocol and also adopted the tool. The company also has - Although I try to do things as quickly as possible, I am meti-
other software developed specifically for the sector and this is fun- culous. It is a great responsibility, but I pay attention to the tiniest
damental for compiling data. details.
Thácia did not always work at Suape. She was first hired, in Studying economics has taught Thácia a valuable lesson for
2012, as a surveyor’s assistant. But her career seemed already to anyone dealing with public funds.
have been mapped out by her determination to gain further qua- - We have a duty to spend public money responsibly so as to
lifications. Even though she had already completed two technical improve the quality of people’s lives.

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