[NCUC-DISCUSS] [off-topic] disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil

[Gustavo Paiva]

Caff,

I'm very sorry to hear that one of our colleagues in Internet Governance
went through such a loss. I cannot imagine what he must be enduring. I'll
send my condolences at once. Thank you for the heads up.

Gustavo Paiva.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 07:41, Carlos Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Dear people,
>
> [off-topic]
>
> I trust you all know about the major environmental and human disaster in
> Brumadinho, Brazil. A dam containing a mud of leftovers of mining
> operations of Vale corporation burst on January 25th. The alarm to alert
> the communities did not sound, and hundreds of people were caught in a
> rapid tsunami of mud which behaves like a kind of cold lava, A hotel was
> wiped out, as well as the entire operations center of the company in the
> area, taking with it hundreds of people.
>
> It was lunch time at the hotel, and nearly all guests were caught and
> buried in mud. Among them, five relatives of a staff member of CGI.br:
> Vagner Diniz is the head of the Brazilian chapter of W3C, which is
> hosted by CGI.br, and a long-time participant in the development of
> Internet governance in Brazil.
>
> This message is to ask you, if possible, to send messages of condolences
> and solidarity to Vagner Diniz. There is an email which can be used for
> that: assessoria at cgi.br.
>
> As you know, CGI.br is the multistakeholder Brazilian Internet Steering
> Committee and a strong supporter of IGF since its inception. It helped
> to host and fund two IGFs in Brazil, in 2007 and 2015.
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
>
> --
>
> Carlos A. Afonso
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