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Comprising more than 240 Non-Governmental Organisations for and of Disabled People, the elderly or those at risk of exclusion, its roots can be traced back to when social solidarity institutions joined the RCTS - Technology and Society Network.
The RCTS was set up in 1997 to replace the National Scientific Computation Network, extending this network of scientific and higher education institutions to elementary and secondary schools, public libraries, solidarity institutions and other scientific and cultural institutions.
Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) has sponsored this development and has made the Solidarity Network Portal (site in Portuguese) and a content manager to each of the network’s institutions available since June 2005. In addition, it provides the broadband Internet connection to Solidarity Network institutions and provides roughly 650 email inboxes for these institutions and monitors their activities.