According to Rodrigo Baggio, executive director of CDI, the campaign will enable the organization to have more computers available in each of its branch offices. Currently CDI has 863 computers installed. CDI expands over Latin America thanks to a partnership with Starmedia Foundation. CDI is commencing operation in Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico. International recognition came last year, when Unesco certified the worldwide quality of the program.
Companies promise to do more than donating computers.
The company donated 20 computers at the beginning of the campaign. Chu Tung, president of EDS do Brasil, a company which donated 100 computers together with Visanet, praised the organization. Besides donating, the company offered to install and configure the computers. Sylvio Sim es, technology director of Visanet, said the company will give training and support to teachers and monitors at CDI through its voluntary work program. Visanet and Xerox do Brasil keep a school in the slums on Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro which is very similar in nature to CDI's program.