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Oona Castro, Open Business Brazil (34)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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member since:   18/5/2007
birth date:   20/5/2007
languages:   English | Portuguese
blogs:   none
 
 
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  articles · Cafune breaking the limits for Open Business models
22/11/2006 15:45 · 21 votes · no comments

Imagine showcasing a feature film, not only on a cinema screen, but simultaneously on a computer screen too. Imagine that on the premiere day of Troy or Titanic, or any boxoffice hit, the movie was also released on online peer-to-peer networks too. A Utopian idea yes, and while you may be pondering if this could ever happen, we can stop you in your tracks and say - it already did!...

   
 
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  articles · Social Network Platforms in Brazil: The Videolog Case
by Paula Martini · voted on 30/4/2008 22:12 · 29 votes · no comments

Nine months before YouTube's launching, another online videos service was being born: Videolog.tv, a Brazilian website that was built on an open business model. Mostly used by people connected to local young urban cultures, like skaters, filmmakers and Parkour practitioners, Videolog is now increasing the bet it has always placed on community issues.

Actually, they do prefer...

articles · Pipeline patents, compulsory licensing and the costs of AIDS treatment in Brazil
by Paula Martini · voted on 22/2/2008 23:52 · 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...

   
 
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  articles · Dubrovnik, a medieval Río de Janeiro?
by wernerio · commented on 16/6/2007 19:34 · 22 votes · 6 comments

Why not? A bit of mixing will do ...

Although Brazil has little to do with Croatia, seems to be that the same sharing and mixing spirit still roams in the commoners gathered for the Welcoming Drinks of the iSummit '07. Gathered on the roofs of the imposing fort in the old town of Dubrovnik, local croatian host Tomislav Medak and last year's host Ronaldo Lemos toasted for the...

   
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