About the author

Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest

José Augusto de Melo Neto is Director of Amazonas Media Center for Education, managing the Distance Learning in the Amazon Forest project. The Distance Learning in the Amazon Forest project reaches out to extremely remote communities through the Internet and satellite technology. Launched in 2007 by the Amazonas State, this revolutionary project is already offering quality education to over 34,000 students.

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Organization: Amazonas Government - Brazil

Project Solution Provider: Hughes

> Access the Amazonas Government website

> Access the Hughes website

You can also follow Hughes's activity through its social media networks by accessing:

> Hughes's Facebook page

> Hughes's Twitter page

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‘River’ View Amazon

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 10/04/2012 2009 Winners 0

When Google launched  ’Google Street View Amazon’ last month we could all virtually travel down the rivers, explore forests and some rural communities of the Amazonas through 360-degree street-level imagery. Take a virtual boat ride down the main section of the Rio Negro Google worked in partnership with the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) As the [...]


Distance learning – a long way to get an education

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 22/08/2011 2009 Winners 0

The geographic isolation has been overcome in various parts of the world through a different way of providing education. The article titled Distance learning – a long way to get an education, published by Euronews (see link below) shows what the Orkney Islands, in Scotland, the Brisbane School , in Australia, and the Amazon tropical [...]


Meeting the 2009 Laureates

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 08/12/2010 2009 Winners 0

Today at lunch I had the pleasure to meet two amazing women. They were laureates in 2009 by WISE: Sheetal Mehta, from India, and Joyce Dongotey-Padi, from Ghana (She is also known as as Akumaa Mama Zimbi). . . . Watch their webdocumentaries: Nanhi Kali – Supporting Girl Education in India WANE – Empowering Women through [...]


Now is time to act

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 2009 Winners 0

The WISE experience is really renewing. You feel like a part of a global community with the responsibility to change the world in the best of senses. It’s not, in any way, an empty rhetoric. The subjects presented are very pertinent and optimism is renewed.


The logistic challenge…

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 04/12/2010 2009 Winners 0

The performand of this project in the rural communities of the Amazon, in Brazil, is, besides the pedagogical and technological challenge, a great logistic challenge. How to install and perform the maintenance of vsats antennas and other computing equipment in a State of the size of the Amazon, cut by more than one thousand rivers?


Great expectations!

Posted by Jose Augusto - Distance Learning, Amazon Forest, 03/12/2010 2009 Winners 0

Hello everyone! We will be glad to share news about the Distance Learning in the Amazon Forest project. We have great expectations in the coming years for our teachers and students. We have many photos to share here so you can better know the people who make the Amazonas Media Center for Education happen every day in [...]