Sergio Cabral
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[edit] Sergio Cabral
Sergio Cabral is the founder of Rede Omega and IdeaValley (IdeaValley WebSite), a tech lab dedicated of Rupture Inovation based in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
In 2000, after the failure of Rede Omega, he was accused and is still being prosecuted for his alleged involvement in the misuse and/or theft of the company's funding. Trix Engenharia presidents, the other partners in Rede Omega, are still trying to find out where the money went.
Dr. Sergio Cabral is considered one of the precursors of Wireless Technology Application for BroadBand Internet Access, and is one of the must active Digital Divide Warriors in the world. For several years, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA)([http://www.wcai.com), the global trade association for the broadband wireless industry, and has received several awards. Among them were honors for Best Underserved Community project (in Rio de Janeiro in 2002 from WCA), Best Digital Inclusion Project of 2005 by W2i (Wireless Internet Institute) and several others for his works in different places of the world. In 2006, he received the title of Intel Hero, as one of the 14 people selected around the world by the adoption of Intel technology to reduce the digital divide in the society.
Sergio has degrees in Mathemathics, Physics, IT, Electronic Engineering and Chemical, and a PH.d in BioMedicine, and he continues his study in Music and Cognition using neurolinguistics technics.
During 20 years, Sergio Cabral has developed patents in several areas, from Wireless Internet Access to Tri-Dimensional Brain Maps called Topografo Cerebral (Portuguese), which his equipment had participated in an experience that wins a Nobel Prize in Neurology.
Sergio has founded more than 14 companies and he has been a Board member and/or partner of IdeaValley, WCA, CompuSystems, TAHO, WiPlug, IdeaCapital and IdeaPartners.
Sergio is involved in FLIP technology that is a way to produce Digital Content and Magazines generating new trends in computer usage for the future and figures in the USA Yellow pages from the Congress Library as well as Who's Who in the Internet on the World.
You can visit Dr. Sergio Cabral Blogs at www.ideavalley.com.br/sergio
