Governmental initiatives to promote digital inclusion can bring internet to 80% of the Brazilian population until 2010.

The forecast was made by the minister of Science and Technology, Sergio Rezende, on last Friday (26), during an interview at Empresa Brasil de Comunicação – EBC (Brazil Communication Enterprise).

“We estimate that until 2010 we will have 80% of the Brazilian population accessing the internet regularly. This is the global aim”, says the minister.

The intention is to triplicate the number of Brazilians accessing the net,  from 60 million to 150 million users.

According to the minister, the government has been investing in building “telecentros” in poor communities, raising the number of labs in public schools and the connection of this computers with the internet. The plan is to invest R$ 40 bi more until the end of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s mandate.

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