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articles · Television Will Not Be Revolutionized: Reinventing The Language of New Media
29/1/2008 05:59 · 39 votes · 2 comments
You are young and you have a TV network in your own hands. You also have all the equipment you need – professional cameras and editing equipment, and a production staff. Plus, there is no commercial pressure: everything you produce will be broadcasted, reaching most of the country's TVs. This is the perfect scenario for innovation, right? Wrong.
A quick look at university channels...
nodes · Free Culture Project Brazil (Cultura Livre Brasil)
11/6/2007 03:28 · 50 votes · no comments
The Cultura Livre project develops several activities, ranging from monitoring the World Intellectual Property Organization, to the promotion of actual cultural initiatives, such as the Overmixter.
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nodes · The A2K Brazil Project / FGV Law School
5/6/2007 22:20 · no comments
The A2K project works in Brazil conducting a series of research projects and policy-making activities towards the promotion of access to knowledge (A2K).
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articles · Pipeline patents, compulsory licensing and the costs of AIDS treatment in Brazil
by Paula Martini · voted on 17/2/2008 07:06 · 40 votes · no comments
More than 200,000 HIV positive people receive anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) at no cost from the Brazilian government. However, the sustainability of this AIDS Programme is being threatened by the high prices of the patent protected medicines: the universal distribution policy costs the Health Ministry about US$1 billion per year – 80 percent of which is spent only on six out of the...
articles · Commoner Profile: 10 questions for TzuChiang Liou
by Daniela Faris · voted on 23/9/2007 02:24 · 46 votes · 4 comments
Meet TzuChiang Liou - a key coordinator for this year’s WikiMania conference, held in Taipei at the beginning of August. In this interview, TzuChiang reflects on the experience of organising the event, and provides some tried-and-tested hints and tips for mobilising sponsor and media interest for your Commons gatherings. TzuChiang also gives us some insight into the Free Culture...
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articles · Welcome to My Lan-House: A New Wave of Digital Inclusion in Brazil
by Paula Martini · commented on 3/1/2008 04:04 · 42 votes · 6 comments
The majority of Brazilians who access the Internet today do so through lan-houses. LAN stands for “Local Area Network”, i.e, computers assembled together to allow people to play multi-player games. Popular in Asia, in places like Korea, and previously existing only in the rich neighborhoods of Brazil, they have now become a phenomenon proliferating in poor communities, especially...
articles · Over the Top: The New (and Bigger) Cultural Industry in Brazil
by Paula Martini · commented on 1/10/2007 07:20 · 65 votes · 12 comments
The most popular artist in Brazil is not signed by a record label. The group, called Calypso, is responsible for the most popular music in all regions of the country. Their albums are sold primarily through street vendors, who sell CDs and DVDs of the band in the streets, not because they are pirated, but because that is the preference of the group itself. This is the result of...
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