CDI - Rio de Janeiro This morning, bright and early at 8 am, Dad and I headed over to the center of Rio de Janeiro to meet up with Maurício, director of CDI - Europe, and Marisa, one of the RJ metro area coordinators, to visit two EICS (Citizenship and Information Technology Schools). Right now, CDI is having its semi-annual international meeting in which coordinators from all the countries in which CDI operates come for a retreat, of sorts. CDI is also in the process of strategic planning for the next ten years so the meetings have been rather intense. Scheyla Maia, Rodrigo Baggio’s incredible executive assistant, worked her magic and organized for us to tag along and visit the schools. Before I get into relating our experience, here is some background on CDI: CDI was
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