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Free software is a possibility that those kids will reinvent things that need to be reinvented. Lula da Silva Speech at 10.FISL, POA, Jun/2009 Lawrence Lessig ...

Ive been away from this blog, and from about everything else, because of the huge effort to put up the Brazilian Digital Culture Forum culturadigital.br. I will come back later to better explain whats going on, but for now I will reblog a nice description of what we are doing by Gilberto Jr., a ...

Cory Doctorow, our renegade information plumber, is launching his first collection of essays on everything form copyright and DRM to the layout of phone-keypads, the fallacy of the semantic web, the nature of futurism, the necessity of privacy in a digital world, the reason to love Wikipedia, the miracle of fanfic, and many other subjects. ...

Gilberto Gil has left the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. He says that music has called him back. A quick look at reactions surfacing this week in the headlines of the Brazilian mainstream media tell of a singer-minister who did a passable job in using his social capital to boost the ministrys actions into international channels. ...

Elite Squad, a much-hyped film about Rios special forces police is having its official launch today in Rio and So Paulo, and the nationwide premiere is scheduled for Oct. 12. The peculiar thing about this release is that an estimated crowd of 3.5 million people have already seen it before its debut. The [unauthorized] copy ...

I was invited to represent the Brazilian Ministry of Culture in the conference panel Making the Local Global: Virtual Worlds, Migration, and Linguistic Diaspora of an event called Interdependence Day in Mexico City. Ive met a fine man called Joshua Fouts (Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy) at the iSummit in Rio last year, and ...

The Ashaninkas are the largest indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon and differently from the majority of the South American original dwellers, their cultural identity is greatly preserved. Apart from being among the native nations of the continent connected with the traditional use of Ayahuasca, the Ashaninkas are specially known for their use of beautiful ...

There is no clear consensus about the specific reasons that occasionally boost Brazil to the cutting edge of the open source revolution. For us here in the field, facing so many difficulties, ranging from simple misunderstandings to big resource constraints, the international acclaim sounds a bit exaggerated, and at times misinformed. Ever since the ...

Varjo do Torto is a low income settlement area on the outskirts of Braslia, Brazils political capital. It neighbors the land where my community is located, and it is full of young people eager to make things happen. This is where I am collaborating in a workshop for the local Ponto de Cultura (Cultural Hotspot), ...