About Rede Jovem is a social program that has the mission to strengthen the low income youth from Brazil and stimulate their social and civic participation by providing access to new information and communication technologies(ICTs) since the year 2000.
Rede Jovem Program was conceived to go beyond mere acess to computer technology, even if is initially seen as this by the users. It was conceived as a means of acess to education for citizenship using technologies as main tool and resource.
Thus, both the virtual environment and the physical space were conceived to contribute towards filling gaps ocurring from difficult schooling, to facilitate acess to knowledge and universal