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)