Educacao Livre: Igniting Economic Opportunity in Brazil

Category: Health, Science & Education
Published on Jan 26, 2012

For the past three months I’ve been flying back and forth between Brasilia and Toronto, working with a great team here in Brazil on a project we are calling Educacao Livre (or the Free Education Project): a project that we hope will ignite economic opportunity and promote social inclusion by providing digital skills training for some 2 million young people who are currently underserved by or excluded from Brazil’s education system. Back in Canada, we [...]

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