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India and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding on telecommunications and information and communication technologies on 21 August 2026 in Pune.
It was signed on the sidelines of the 12th BRICS Communications Ministers' Meeting, the ministerial end of the BRICS ICT track India hosted at Pune.
Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia signed for India and Communications Minister Frederico de Siqueira Filho for Brazil.
The MoU covers universal connectivity, cybersecurity, digital public infrastructure, emerging technologies, capacity building and the exchange of best practices.
India holds the BRICS chairship for 2026 - its fourth - and hosts the summit in New Delhi in September 2026; Brazil chaired in 2025.
Brazil occupies eastern and central South America with a coastline of about 7,400 km on the Atlantic, and shares land borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn cross it. Its physiography divides into the Amazon basin in the north, the Brazilian Highlands (Planalto Central) over more than half the territory, the Guiana Highlands along the northern frontier where Pico da Neblina rises on the Venezuelan border, and the Pantanal wetlands along the upper Paraguay river in the centre-west. The Sao Francisco is the major river flowing entirely within Brazil, and the Iguacu Falls lie on the Argentine border.
Population-scale digital systems - identity, payments, data exchange - run as public goods with open standards; India's export of this model is a recurring theme in its BRICS and G20 diplomacy.
The working-group and ministerial chain on communications that India ran at Pune in August 2026, culminating in the 12th Communications Ministers' Meeting.
The two are fellow members of BRICS, IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) and the G20, and both are long-standing claimants for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council.
Raised in the first thematic panel at Pune alongside cybersecurity and trustworthy ICTs - an emerging area of multilateral digital regulation.
GS Paper II > Bilateral, regional and global groupings involving India; GS Paper III > Cybersecurity and emerging technologies
General Awareness > Agreements, MoUs and world geography
General Awareness > Digital public infrastructure and international cooperation
General Awareness > Current events of national importance
Shared digital systems such as identity, payments and data exchange, built as public utilities on open standards.
The objective of extending affordable telecom access to unserved and underserved populations.
The grouping's working-group and ministerial process on communications and information technology.