📋 Tender Overview
Technology opens doors! In the new episode of the MConta videocast, the Ministry of Communications presents a chat about the real impact of the Computers for Inclusion program within the school environment. For this constructive dialogue, we invited the general coordinator of Digital Inclusion, Gustavo Andre, and the director of the Municipal Full-Time School Antonio Farias de Mesquita, Jan Pierre Salles, which is located in Luziania (GO) and recently received refurbished equipment.
The Computers for Inclusion program goes beyond simply delivering machines. It operates in a sustainable cycle divided into three fundamental axes:
* Reverse Logistics: Treatment of equipment discarded by the Federal Government.
* Donation: Delivery of refurbished machines to schools, libraries and telecenters.
* Training: Courses for young people and adults in vulnerable situations.
According to Gustavo Andre, the focus is on connectivity with purpose. Its not just about delivering the hardware, but ensuring digital literacy and the correct treatment of electronic waste, highlights the coordinator.
Education and Sustainability
Environmental awareness is already part of the curriculum at the school led by Jan Pierre. The director reinforces the importance of conscious disposal: Many machines contain heavy metals which, if discarded incorrectly, enter the food chain and harm human health and the environment. Reusing is taking care of the future, he emphasizes.
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Computers for Inclusion
The Ministry of Communications program aims to support and enable initiatives to promote digital inclusion across the country. The project has Computer Reconditioning Centers (CRCs), which are physical spaces adapted to recondition electronic equipment discarded by banks and public bodies.
In these locations, courses and workshops are also held to train young people, adults and elderly people in IT and computer and cell phone maintenance, in addition to promoting awareness about the correct disposal of electronic waste.
All refurbished equipment is donated to public schools, associations and entities with relevant social programs, as well as indigenous villages, rural territories, quilombola and riverside communities, as well as Brazilian favelas.
Each state has at least one CRC. Throughout the program, almost 67 thousand computers have already been recovered and donated to 1.3 thousand municipalities. In 2025 alone, around 11 thousand pieces of equipment were allocated.
