| RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government launched on Tuesday a nationwide Internet-based educational program, from which up to 37 million students and teachers would benefit.
The program, titled Broad Band in Schools, is designed to establish broadband Internet connections at 55,000 public schools, said Ronaldo Sardenberg, president of the National Telecommunications Agency.
Telephone operators have ensured that all the schools would have free access to Internet-based services, Sardenberg said. He added that the network transmission rate will be one megabit per second (Mbps) in the first phase of implementation, and two Mbps in January 2011.
The program, one of many initiatives of the National Program of Computing in Education, is considered one of the most important government projects by the government up to 2010. |
Chinese 
English 
Korean 
Japanese 
French 
Russian 
Vietnamese 
