Aécio calls Rodrigo Baggio to his team.

The founder of the Committee for the Democratization of Information (CDI), Rodrigo Baggio, will coordinate the government program of presidential candidate Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) in the area of technology and digital inclusion; in a decade and a half, the CDI, focused on low-income communities, has benefited more than 1,3 million people, including children, adolescents, adults and the elderly; "We believe in the immense potential of technology for economic development and the reduction of social inequality," said Aécio, via Facebook.

July 15, 2014, 13:08 pmUpdated May 27, 2019, 10:08 AM

The founder of the Committee for the Democratization of Information (CDI), Rodrigo Baggio, will coordinate the government program of presidential candidate Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) in the area of technology and digital inclusion; in a decade and a half, the CDI, focused on low-income communities, has benefited more than 1,3 million people, including children, adolescents, adults and the elderly; "We believe in the immense potential of technology for economic development and the reduction of social inequality," said Aécio, on Facebook (Photo: Leonardo Lucena)

Mines 247 – Rodrigo Baggio, founder of the Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI), will coordinate the government program of presidential candidate Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) in the area of technology and digital inclusion. Baggio has been at the head of CDI, an NGO focused on including low-income communities in the use of digital tools, for 16 years. In a decade and a half, the project has benefited more than 1,3 million people, including children, adolescents, adults and the elderly.

The project is also implemented in prisons, psychiatric institutions, rehabilitation centers for incarcerated youth, centers for people with disabilities, indigenous and riverside villages, among other locations. Currently, there are 821 CDIs in 13 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, the United States (where a fundraising, networking, and outreach office is located), England, Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Check out the text posted by Aécio on his Facebook:

I would like to share with you my joy in having Rodrigo Baggio, founder of the Committee for the Democratization of Information (CDI) and one of Brazil's great social entrepreneurs, as coordinator of our government program for Technology and Digital Inclusion.

We believe in the immense potential of technology for economic development and the reduction of social inequality. The work Rodrigo has developed with low-income communities demonstrates, in practice, the impact of technology on transforming society.