Actually, Brazil does have some IT (and high tech) expertise:
1) Lua programming language was developed by PUC's (Catholic University) Rio de Janeiro staff.
2) Marcelo Tosati (programmer who works for Conectiva _ a Linux system based in Red Hat) is the maintainer of Linux kernel 2.4, I guess.
3) We are the first country to run elections in a computerized system. Flame bait: you americans do need some help in this issue? ;-)
4) Spring is a GIS software developed in Inpe (National Institute of Spacial Research - free translation).
5) Mac Donalds in Brazil (yes, it's right!) uses a management system developed by a native soft house. And have plans to export those to foreign countries.
6) Onca (Jaguar) network were the first to sequence a complete bacterium DNA (Xilela fastidiosa) and make it public (probe in Nature or Science magazine, I don't remember). This makes Brazil the first country to sequence completely a bacterium DNA.
This is part of Genoma Project developed in Sao Paulo Province.
And we are always open to foreign people that wants to develop high tech research in our country. Several of our universities phD researchers come from USA or Europe universities.
(sorry about the poor english) :-(