The Yẽgatu Digital project deploys and co-develops digital writing tools to foster the digital use of the Yẽgatu language in Baré communities in the Amazon. The Baré Indigenous people comprises about 10,000 people in 150 communities in the extreme Northwest of Brazil (Alto do Rio Negro).

In a visit in 2024, two communities, Juruti and Tabocal dos Pereira, volunteered to do a pilot project in 2025 using IBM digital tools in classrooms. Those are bilingual communities with good schools which are struggling with the arrival of fast Internet. Teachers and community leaders are working with IBM and Univ. of São Paulo to improve, evolve, and find ways to use the tools in the schools.

Digital classrooms in Tabocal dos Pereira and Juruti, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazon.

The University of São Paulo (USP) through the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CIAAM) have established a partnership in May of 2025 with the Federation of the Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro (FOIRN), one of the largest Indigenous organizations of the Amazon, to support the deployment and scaling up of Yẽgatu Digital. The agreement also includes the support of the Center of Artificial Intelligence of USP (C4AI), of IBM Research Brazil, and of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) through the C4AI.

Yẽgatu Digital started in July 2025, in 2 schools with digital classrooms where the digital tools will be used. The project retrofitted two classrooms of the Juruti and Tabocal do Pereira communities with dedicated fast Internet, video-conference equipment, and student tablets, donated by a private donor, and maintained by the project. The digital classrooms can be also used for other EAD activities such as digital literacy programs, technical training, and adult-oriented programs. Workshops with the local students have started in August of 2025.