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An innovative technology in Brazil aims to connect communities without access to the internet through simple cell phones and even pay phones. The system called Vojo enables the transmission of information without having to access the internet or be connected to computers. All this only through a number 0800. The project wants to train community leaders in five cities of the country. Salvador will host the first workshop, the first experience in South America.
The system is born the desire to give voice to the people and, for this, allows posting on blogs and social networks through basic cell or even pay phones. This is a very useful tool for indigenous communities, maroon, rural settlements and others. With it, the community does not need mediation to make their voice heard, the project goes to the bottom of the pyramid aimed at the democratization of communication.
The project, sponsored by the Ethnic Media Institute (EMI ), with support from the Ford Foundation, was launched on Tuesday (28) in Bahia. Besides Salvador, community leaders from four other Brazilian cities (São Luís, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo) will have the opportunity to learn to use the system that allows post content using simple handsets even without Internet access. This technology was created by researchers associated with the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the prestigious university in the United States.
The first workshop pilot of Vojo happened in late 2014 on Maré Island, district of Salvador, located on the Bahia de Todos-os-Santos. Young, shellfish and maroon leaders in the region had contact with technology and produced the first issues denouncing even threats of environmental pollution caused by oil tankers.
After being released in Salvador, the EMI will offer Vojo workshops in São Paulo and three more capital
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