More telecenters for Brazil By March-end 2006, the first 50 telecenters of the Telecentros BR project are expected to be launched. They're located in low-income communities. This project was developed by APC-member Rits, Brazil's state-run oil corporation Petrobras and ITI (National Institute of Information Technology). Each unit is equipped with 20 internet-linked computers. Free (Open-Source) Software technicians and social developers were hired and especially trained for the project. Rits developed a management system that can generate real-time reports about the usage of every telecenter. Telecenters will offer free access to the Internet using Sacix - <http://www.sacix.org.br> - a customized Debian version of the GNU/Linux operating system.
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