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Rodrigo, you are crazy. Poor people can never use computers." That is what friends and business associates in Rio de Janiero said to Rodrigo Baggio five years ago when he told them about his dream to bring technology into the city's sprawling slums, called favelas. He didn't listen. Now Baggio, 30, operates 117 computer schools in the slums of 13 Brazilian states through his Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI). Most of the 32,000 young people who have completed classes either have jobs or are starting their own businesses. Without Baggio's inspired idea, most...
...cited concerns raised at last summer's environmental summit in Rio de Janiero--fears that the world's raw materials are in danger of quick depletion, that the world's population will soon be unable to feed itself and that global warming threatens economic progress--as "both uninformed and simply not documented...
...last June's Commencement exercises, Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland--fresh from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil--delivered an idealistic keynote speech about the importance of the environment...
...last June's Commencement exercises, Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland--fresh from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil--delivered an idealistic keynote speech about the importance of the environment...
Brundtland traveled to Harvard's Commencement straight from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil where she gave the keynote address. When her selection as speaker was announced in April, Harvard Alumni Association Executive Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 called Brundtland a "catalyst, a mover on environmental issues...