{"id":33,"date":"2026-04-06T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:43:01","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/2026\/04\/06\/welcome-to-our-new-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our New Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Group&#8217;s newest Chair!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 S\u00e3o Paulo&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Group&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/2026\/04\/06\/welcome-to-our-new-chair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}