Observatório Educação Vigiada is an initiative by researchers of academia and of social organizations that aims to collect and disseminate information about the platformization of public education in Brazil and South America, and to encourage a debate in society regarding its social and educational impacts. It is part of the Open Education Initiative.

The project was started because of thescarcity of information about the presence of large technology companies - especially those that profit through the collection, processing, and commercialization of user data on their digital platforms and services - in offering educational technologies and storage in data centers - to public educational institutions in Brazil, which hinders research efforts, public discussion about the risks, and the decisions of managers in regards to technology futures in institutions and school systems.

To solve this problem, we created software capable of identifying the storage location of the official e-mails servers of public educational institutions. Tus we can identify and map agreements made between these institutions and systems and these technology companies. The software went through a qualitative validation process through requests done via LAI (similar to FOIA in the United States).