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Proyecto Cyberela - Radio Telecentros
http://www.cemina.org.br
Award of Distinction Digital Communities
“Cyberela” is a project designed to improve the lives of Brazilian women by providing them with access to communications and information technologies.
Each womon participating in the project receives a desktop computer equipped with audio processing software and instructions on how to operate the hardware and software. Plus, they are provided with a broadband Internet connection and technical assistance six months long.
With this infrastructure—which is also being made available at Telecenters in rural regions—women can actively take advantage of the projects being run by the network. These include participating in local radio programs (which can also be accessed online).
This project benefits women in several ways: it helps them acquire skills involving modern communication technologies and thus enhances women’s qualifications; it fosters networking and information exchange by means of local radio productions; it alerts women to job possibilities, informs them about political and social issues, and enables them to contact and network with other women.
In doing so, “Cyberela” provides sustainable developmental aid to human beings who are doubly disadvantaged: victims of gender-specific discrimination, as well as of the so-called Digital Gap whereby access to information technology is distributed very unevenly throughout the world.
Source: http://www.cemina.org.br
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