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Internationalization is a topic that has become especially relevant in the last few years.
The interplay between economic globalization and closer cultural contact among people connected to the Internet has drawn our attention to the opportunities and challenges associated to designing interactive computer applications for a much wider public. His research work in HCI has covered topics from input techniques, information visualization and the design process. I believe that our topic and interviewee bring together an array of concerted ideas, experiences and possibilities that our community can discuss and put into practice. The Brazilian CHI community is thus invited to respond to John Karat's contribution. Being a country with such wide cultural and social variety of population inside its own territory, Brazil is a place where we can try and design more inclusive HCI, a key aspect of what internationalization is all about.