Sustainability and Climate: Establishing a Solar Community Hub in Brazil.

$Intel (INTC.US)$ To address environmental and educational needs of the Boa Esperança community in Brazil, we partnered with Dell and the Sustainable Amazon Foundation to establish a solar community hub. Powered by solar energy, it provides internet access, technology and services that benefit about 1,500 people. The community hub provides access to digital literacy skills, business management training and healthcare through telehealth connections. In addition to education, training and health, the Amazon Deforestation Alert System will be implemented for territorial management activities that will identify occurrences of deforestation or environmental degradation in the Amazon region. Inputs from local environmental monitors combined with AI technology create probabilistic and geostatistical models to predict locations of new deforestation in the short term with over 90% accuracy.