1) A project in Brazil aims to provide $100 laptops to students to improve education through technology. 2) The state of Parana is testing a "Digital Notebook" project that provides portable computers to 40 high school students to use in class and for homework. 3) The inexpensive, Linux-based notebooks were designed by company TWT Solutions to be durable, energy efficient, and unable to function without connecting to a school server to prevent theft.

1. A Brazilian Project for
the World

2. News...
Government discuss US$ 100 Notebook MIT waits US$ 100 Notebook for 2006
US$ 100 Notebook arrives in government
Government confirms analysis on the popular
in June
Notebook
Popular Notebook will demand connectivity
Government discuss popular
Notebook this Tuesday
US$ 100 Laptop makes Lula enthusiastic
Government creates special group
for popular Notebook

3. Beyond the News...
Brazil already have
portable computer project
State School Students receives Digital Notebook
Forty students from the first year of high
school of the State College of Paraná had
initiated an innovative experience in
education terms. They are part of the
experimental stage of the project DIGITAL
NOTEBOOK , an initiative of the Paraná
Government, in set with the Secretariat of
Science, Technology and College Education
of Paraná and of the Program World-wide
Classroom in Information Technology and
Communication – W-class, in partnership
with public and private companies.

4. Brazilian Project!
Newspaper Gazeta do Povo
October, 14th , 2002
According to the Secretary of State of
Science and Technology, Ramiro
Warhaftig, the project objetives are the
insertion of the professor in the age of
the constant learning, the use of the
digital notebook as a tool for the
diffusion of knowledge, the
improvement of the student´s
learning and its capacity for research.
“It will also be the multiplier of the
acquired knowledge of the new
technologies for the familyquot;, said
Wahrhaftig, in the Winter Institute,
event organized by the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and city hall of
Curitiba to analyse innovative
experiences in education.

5. Brazilian Project
Newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo” Brazil, October, 14th, 2002
Public School Students of Paraná use Digital Notebook
In this semester, 40 students of the State College of Paraná had included a portable computer in the pertaining of
school material. The equipment is from the Digital Notebook project that is in experimental stage and was created by
the Government of the State of Paraná to bring information technology to the public schools.
The portable computer is used in the classroom, on to a server who stores the applicatory ones. “It is already being
used in the lessons of the majority school homework’s,” affirms the headmaster of the educational division of the State
College, Ana Maria Amaral Lima. The newness brought great interest of the students, affirms the coordinator of the
project on the State College, Maria Luiza Diniz Lacerta. “They do not arrive late for class and nor have haste to go even
so”, said. The lessons with the digital notebook are so different from the traditional ones, affirms Maria Luiza.
Portuguese Teacher, to give lessons about the baroque style, she asks for the students to search the Internet some
texts. After that she asks them to compare with texts of other styles that are already saved in the folder. As homework
the students have to use the computer to create slides and present their conclusions to the others.
Portable PC – The student can take the digital notebook to home. “We hope that the student works as a knowledge
multiplier, teaching their families and community friends”, said the coordinator of the project, Keizo Assahida. For this,
however, was necessary to create a robust, cheap and transportable equipment, task attributed to TWT Solutions. The
result is a computer with 128Mhz processor, 64MB RAM memory, flash memory of 10MB, two USB ports, one serial and
one parallel and 12’’ LCD.
The equipment uses Linux and consumes five times less energy comparing to a common desktop, in accordance with
the director of marketing of TWT, Rawlinson Peter Terrabuio. “The equipment was specially created for the schools
reality”, said. “We create a cabinet with material resistant to shock,” Terrabuio compares it to a palmtop. “It
synchronizes with the schools server and stores only 10 MB in the flash memory”, explains. According to the director,
the equipment does not function anymore if it does not connect to the server. “With this, we eliminate the problem with
robbery”. (K.A.)

7. Experience
August/2002 – Digital Notebook Project
State School of Paraná – Development and Implantation

8. Products and
Technology

9. Products
ABC Linux School:
ABC Digital System: Specific Software Platform to the educational
sector formed by: ABC Linux School Solution – Operational and
Management System in exclusive Linux for schools, ABC Security
Solution – security software and ABC Educational Solution –
Educational election of homologated and translated Softwares of
free distribution.
With these tools our company “E-DUC” offers the following
services: Configuration of the Educational TI Master
Environment; Maintenance and Support of the educational
catalogue of softwares; New educational softwares upgrade to the
catalogue without incidental costs; Benchmark of the educational
softwares and information to the customers; Development of new
resources for the educational software and Personalization of the
software by order.

10. Products
ABC Digital Laptop
Educational “Embedded PC” Hardware
d ig i ta l

11. ABC Digital: The Future

12. ABC Digital: Resources
Projected Configuration
CPU: Project Main Board Mini-ITX or PC/104
Processor: X86 Clock 800 Mhz to 1 Ghz
Memory: Minimum of 256MB
Unit Storage: Compact Flash 512MB or HD 40GB
Esteem Consumption of Energy: 20 to 50W
Monitor: LCD 15”
Minimum of 2 USB 2.0 + Parallel
Cabinet: Expanded Polyurethane resistant for small impacts
OS – Operational System: ABC Linux School

13. Services
 Development and Programming
 Software Research
 Catalogue of Softwares
 Benchmarking
 Translation
 Portuguese/English Manual
 Implantation
 Management
 Support
 Qualification
 Infra-Structure Projects
 Connectivity

14. Main Benefits For
Schools and Students
Management of the programmatic content and classroom and also management
of the software environment for type of user, level and age;
Platform of easy use propitiates qualification of the teachers with less time and
lesser investment;
Complete Integration, development of a dynamic and productive education
system, with the interchange of knowledge between the teachers and students
constructing an ample net with unimaginable potentialities;
Students learning in a Collaborative Environment;
Remote update of software;
Great Economy of Resources in Hardware for the schools due to the
construction of a mechanism of difficult obsolescence;
High Security, less virus possibilities to the system and data locking through
system with modern mechanisms of cryptography and identification of the user;
Centralization of the information to produce contents access to all with
substantial economy of resources;
More than 1.000 Pedagogical Software with on-line support with constant
development, translation to Portuguese language, manuals and update;
Students as the carriers / multipliers of the information access to their families.

15. Main Benefits
For the Country
Longer life of the equipments;
Less investment in physical infrastructure and logical net;
Less energy consumption;
Equipment not available commercially and with software security/locking not
allowing robberies, thus guaranteeing the student security;
Less investment in hardware update;
Client / Server Environment with management and total domain of the software
system;
Less cost with software update;
Bigger security of the teacher and students against virus;
Less cost with teacher qualification;
System prepared for a controlled growth;
Total integration with the WEB allowing the use of the content of other websites;
Great economy of public resources in the acquisition of peripherals and
software licenses;
Model Project for WORLD WIDE REFERENCE.

16. Opinions
“The Brazilian software industry is robust and strong. It has the capacity to grow
and to conquer the external market, but clearly it has necessities of
incentivesquot;...quot;The window of chances in the area of semiconductors for Brazil
have closedquot;...quot;If Brazil wants, in fact, to include itself with the great ones of the
world-wide economy will have to invest very strong in the knowledge. Education
is the base of the generation of jobs and money for a Country“
Craig Barret – CEO INTEL CORP.
quot;The social impacts of computer science, conquest of science and the technology,
are capable to take to a bigger transformation that of the gas machine. An
established society each time more in the exchange of symbolic values, from
money to the information, goes to change the axle of the economy, finish with
the current concept of work, to value more than everything the knowledge and
the learning. In this scene, the excluded ones will be each time more excluded -
with the power concentrating in the virtual spheres (with deep control in the real
spheres) - not to be that if they implement efficient and massive actions to
promote its digital inclusion.“
Carlos Seabra – Scientific Coordinator of the Center of Digital Inclusion
and Community Education of the School of the Future - USP.

17. Contact:
Rawlinson Peter Terrabuio
Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer
e-mail:rawlinson@e-duc.com
Tel./Fax: (41) 3015-2573