the RIVER – THE Single Central of Slums, promotes this weekend, a marathon to train residents of communities in technology. The Slum On will be held in the Space Cufa, in Madureira, in the North Zone, and will offer lectures, workshops, and workshops with representatives of companies such as Facebook, MDCI, Sebrae and Dataprev.
- The combination between technology and the brazilian favelas is promising. By means of it is possible to promote opportunities, entrepreneurship and education. It is worth remembering that the favelas have always been innovative and can be even more with the current technology, ” says Ronaldo Lemos, president of the Institute for Technology and Society of rio de janeiro, which will host a talk on virtual currencies during the Slum Online.
Student of Information Technology, Gabriel de Oliveira, aged 19, signed up at the event and says he is looking forward to attending the workshop development of mobile devices, such as mobile apps.
- it Is an area that is crescebdo much and offers great prospects. A course like this is very hard to find and should cost you dearly – esteem the young man, who lives in Patience, in the West Zone.
On Saturday, the marathon of 12 activities start at 12pm, with Facebook featuring the theme "It in Tec (Marathon concept/programming focused on forming developer); passing by the lecture "Transform your idea into a business", Sebrae, and closes at 20h, with "professional Profile of software developer", of Dataprev.
On Sunday, from 10am, the Dataprev starts the journey of the other 12 lectures, workshops and hands-on workshops on the "Workshop on introduction to mobile application development". Another highlight is "How to make my money last", Sebrae, at 14; "Making your computer work better for you", the Facebook, and "Chat with entrepreneur: meet the success of Barkus". And during the two days, you will experience the Marathon of Business – Turning ideas into business, Sebrae. This activity aims to stimulate the development of technological solutions to problems of the favela.
- More than 80% of the young people of the favela already has some kind of connection with technology, whether through the internet, smartphones, video games and etc. So, to join these people in a Slum ON Rio de Janeiro, in that first moment, and then in the whole of Brazil, is a way to transform the reality of them and to enable also them to create technologies to solve the problems of their territories, ” says Celso Athayde, creator of the project.
The Favela is On a promotion of the Single Central of Slums (Cufa), with the sponsorship of Dataprev, the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services and Slum Goes Flying; with the partnership with Facebook; support of Sebrae and MDCI; with promotion of the Network the Globe; and the production of InFavela.
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