📋 Tender Overview
With the goal of bringing digital literacy to all Brazilians and training them for the digital era, the Computers for Inclusion program, from the Ministry of Communications, donated, in 2025, more than 60 refurbished computers to Santa Catarina, intended for the creation of new computer labs in three municipalities. The equipment was prepared by low-income people, students of the project.
The Minister of Communications, Frederico de Siqueira Filho, said that the idea is to increasingly expand the project and bring digital inclusion to the most needy areas of each Brazilian state, through the donation of computers, the training of people in Computer Reconditioning Centers (CRCs) spread across Brazil and the creation of computer laboratories in associations, institutions, rural and remote areas.
The program aims to prepare all Brazilians for the digital era. Today, access to basic services and banks is done through applications. Those who do not know how to use these tools are excluded from many benefits. The idea is to not leave anyone excluded from this digital universe and transform our society, making it fully connected, he said.
The Computers for Inclusion program has Computer Reconditioning Centers (CRCs) in almost all Brazilian states. These spaces recondition and transform into new equipment those that were previously discarded by banks and public bodies. Once ready, the computers are used to create computer labs in public schools, associations, non-profit institutions and in rural and remote locations.
The initiative of the Ministry of Communications welcomes, in these same CRCs, people of various ages, especially low-income people, to learn how to recondition computers. In return, they leave qualified, with training in IT courses, new technologies and maintenance of computers and cell phones, ready for opportunities in the job market.
Goal exceeded
Since the program was created in 2010, 67,000 computers have been donated to 1,298 municipalities across the country, serving 5,342 points of digital inclusion. With these deliveries, Computers for Inclusion exceeded the initial goal of donating 60 thousand pieces of equipment by the end of 2026.
In total, 304 courses have already been offered in the 27 CRCs that make up the program, training more than 66 thousand students for the digital era.
In the last three years, donations have been prioritized to serve populations living in difficult-to-access places, such as quilombola territories and indigenous villages, as well as rural workers, extractivists, fishermen and neighborhood associations.
Text: ASCOM | Ministry of Communications * More information: press@mcom.gov.br | (61) 2027.6086 or (61) 2027.6628
