Marta Voelcker

Marta Voelcker is a co-founder and Director of Brazil's Fundação Pensamento Digital (FPD), where she leads projects to promote and study the use of ICTs for development, with a focus on education. FPD's main activities include helping non-government organizations establish and accredit telecenters, developing models for using ICTs in after-school activities targeting teenagers, and researching the impact of public access to ICTs and the use of One Laptop per Child in Brazil. Marta volunteers for a number of organizations and boards, including Squeakland Foundation and Porto Alegre's Board for Science and Technology. Marta is a specialist in non-profit organization and management, holds a Bachelor of Administration in System Analysis and a Masters in Social Psychology, and is currently a PhD student in ICT for education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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