Wonderful news! Congratulations Carlos and well-deserved!! All best, Robin On Jan 3, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Norbert Klein wrote: > Forwarding news, about our participant and good friend Carlos > Afonso, which I > got: > > Norbert > > - > > http://arruda.rits.org.br/rets/servlet/ > newstorm.notitia.apresentacao.ServletDeSecao? > codigoDaSecao=9&dataDoJornal=atual > > Text in the above URL note translated to English: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Carlos Afonso, executive director of the Information Network for the > Third Sector [RITS] was blessed with the ARede 2008 Award for the best > projects for digital inclusion in the country. CA has been elected by > the judges of the award as Personality of the Year 2008 for its > militancy among the entities of the third sector, which has been > promoting social inclusion through the development of Internet and > digital inclusion programs. > > ARede initiative of the magazine, the award was also given to eight > projects, in terms Special Education, Enterprise, Public Sector and > Third Sector. Of the total of 206 projects registered, coming from > nearly all states of Brazil, the majority (79) belongs to the category > Special Education. > > In video, CA thanked the award, pointing out that Brazil needs a > strategic and coordinated national policy for information and > communication technologies for development [ICT4D] , which takes into > account the scanning in all areas, in all territories, and that > benefit, especially the families of lower income. > > -- > Phnom Penh/Cambodia > PGP key-id 0x0016D0A9 > > If you want to know what is going on in Cambodia, please visit us > regularly - > you can find something new every day: > > http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com (English) > http://kanhchoksangkum.wordpress.com (Khmer) IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]