Re: Welcome to our New Chair [via Civic Technology Community Group]

Thank you Adam, it is an honor to be with you.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM W3C Community Development Team <
team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:

> I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Group's newest Chair!
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> Felipe Ribeiro began working with civic technology in 1998 when he was 14
> and started working with a UNICEF programme called School City which
> allowed them to build free telecentres around São Paulo's slums and to
> bring educational technologies like Wiki and Plone to nearby schools. He
> has since contributed to countless projects with the free libre open-source
> software (FLOSS) community worldwide to help critically endangered
> communities, traditional knowledges leadership, and high-tech geeks to find
> local solutions for emergency cases. Nowadays, he develops civic
> policymaking at the United Nations.
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> This post sent on Civic Technology Community Group
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> 'Welcome to our New Chair'
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> https://www.w3.org/community/civics/2026/04/06/welcome-to-our-new-chair/
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> Learn more about the Civic Technology Community Group:
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> https://www.w3.org/community/civics
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