Welcome to our New Chair

I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Group’s newest Chair!

Felipe Ribeiro began working with civic technology in 1998 when he was 14 and started working with a UNICEF programme called School City which allowed them to build free telecentres around São Paulo’s slums and to bring educational technologies like Wiki and Plone to nearby schools. He has since contributed to countless projects with the free libre open-source software (FLOSS) community worldwide to help critically endangered communities, traditional knowledges leadership, and high-tech geeks to find local solutions for emergency cases. Nowadays, he develops civic policymaking at the United Nations.