Folha launches app on Rio+20 for smartphones

06/05/2012 - 09h22

Folha has launched a special app on Rio +20 for smartphones.

The app allows readers to follow the news and photo galleries on the U.N. summit on sustainable development to be held in June in Rio.

Readers can access the content at folha.com/rio20 from their smartphones' internet browser. It is possible to create a shortcut to the app, leaving its icon visible on the desktop.

If readers access the website from a tablet, they will have an adapted version for wide screens. In the app, readers will be able to browse through the interactive content especially made for tablets, with infographics on themes to be addressed at the summit, the origins of the global agenda since the 1960s, maps of the places where the events will occur, among other features.

Rio+20 already had a special website in Portuguese, launched on April 11, with exclusive news and interactive content. The preparations for the summit, the diplomats' meetings and demands from different sectors of society have been widely covered in Folha's printed and online versions.

Folha has also launched an international website on Rio+20 in English and Spanish, with the main news on the event.

Translated by THOMAS MUELLO