📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Communications won, on Thursday (28), in Brasilia (DF), one of the main recognitions of public management in Brazil. The Computers for Inclusion Program won the Conip Prize for Excellence in Public Management 2025, in the Citizen Service category, for the impact work on promoting digital inclusion throughout the country.
It is a pride for us to win this award, because it shows how much the computers program for inclusion contributes to the inclusion and digital transformation of Brazilian society. President Lulas goal is to end digital exclusion, and we will follow firm with this mission, said Communications Minister Frederico de Siqueira Filho.
Created for over 15 years, the program has changed the reality of thousands of Brazilians by reconditioning computers discarded by public agencies and private companies, turning them into learning and professionalization tools. Machines are donated to public schools, indigenous communities, quilombola territories, rural settlements and social projects, as well as being used in technological training courses that form young people, adults and the elderly for the labor market.
This award is the recognition of a collective work, which involves from the partners who donate equipment to the young people who graduate in our courses and transform their lives through technology. Computers for inclusion shows that it is possible to unite sustainability, social inclusion and opportunities for those who need it most, said the general coordinator of digital inclusion of the Ministry of Communications, Gustavo Andre Fernandes.
About the Award
The Conip Award for Excellence in Innovation in Public Management has been granted since 1998 and recognizes initiatives that use information and communication technology to modernize public services and strengthen citizenship. Public administrations of all spheres of government may apply, as well as public agencies and foundations.
The categories include topics such as artificial intelligence, data protection, internal management, digital transformation, public policies and citizen service.
Computers for inclusion
The program promotes digital inclusion through computer reconditioning centers (CRC) - physical spaces adapted for the reconditioning of electro -electronic equipment, discarded by banks and public agency.
In the axis of training, students trained in the CRCs, mostly young people and the elderly have the opportunity to turn their lives through education and professionalization in the use of technologies.
In addition to the reconditioning of computers, computer courses and computer maintenance are offered. Once ready, the machines are donated to public schools, indigenous villages, quilombola territories, rural settlements, riverside peoples, rural areas and relevant projects aimed at social actions in the country.
Text: Ascom | Ministry of Communications * More information: press@mcom.gov.br | (61) 2027.6086 or (61) 2027.6628
