[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice receives the Technology for Citizens Award from Guarulhos City, Brazil

Dear all,

We announced in Brazilian Blog about the Brazilian LibreOffice Award. 
Here you can see the post only in Portuguese and the photos. 
http://libreofficebrasil.blogspot.com.br/2012/05/libreoffice-recebe-premio-tecnologia.html

The translation is here.

Guarulhos, May 18^th , 2012. LibreOffice "Technology for Citizens Best 
International Software" award from City of Guarulhos, Brazil, in 
reconnaissance of the importance of LibreOffice in the social programs 
of the city for its population.

The award was received by Ms Eliane Domingos, a TDF member and activist 
in the Brazilian LibreOffice community. LibreOffice is included in 
Guarux distribution, an Ubuntu based Linux distribution assembled by the 
City's IT department, for use by all the city's public servants and in 
the city "telecentros", which are centers maintained by the city to 
allow the economically deprived population to use computers and to 
access the internet, as part of the social program to raised the 
population awareness on new technologies.

"The award is special for The Document Foundation because it shows how 
important is LibreOffice and FOSS in general for the emerging countries 
that need absolutely to close the gap of knowledge and is a way to 
eradicate poverty and bring a significant part of the city population 
into the information mainstream" says Eliane. "For me it is also special 
because I am deeply involved in promoting LibreOffice as a valuable tool 
for all Brazilians", she completed.

The Mayor of Guarulhos, Sebastião Almeida, reminded that the role of the 
public administration in the technology improvements: "Technology only 
makes sense if aimed to the citizen promotion and valuation, and the 
mission of the public administration is to innovate more and more so 
that the citizen lives happier and better", says Almeida.


Best,

Eliane Domingos de Sousa
Brazilian LibreOffice Community

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