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Baggio offers software tips to students at one of 107 computing schools in Brazilan favelas. Photo courtesy of CDI.

Brazil's nonprofit software tycoon

Rodrigo Baggio invests in tomorrow, by linking computers with kids

Call him the geek with a conscience. Rodrigo Baggio taught himself software programming at age 12, when his father gave him a Paralógica TK-82—the first personal computer widely sold in Brazil. "From that point forward I was fascinated by computing," says the 29-year-old Rio de Janeiro native...

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