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They began in Brazil - 650 grassroots cultural centers spread all around the country that receive a digital multimedia production infrastructure and take part in a series of meetings and workshops regarding free and open source software for multimedia production, open licensing, gift economy and similar subjects.
Not a utopian wish but a concrete project, alive in many areas of Brazil, empowering and engaging marginalized communities and creating an active network of individuals that have leapt from pre-literate obscurity straight into socially active cyberculture.
A culture of the upload
The best way to enter the conversation would be joining our open mailing list. You can browse the open archives to see what you are getting yourself into.
To get directly in touch write to Gordon Knox at: gknox@stanford.edu
Larry Lessig (Stanford professor of law and founder of Creative Commons) has called this initiative: “one of the most exciting and potentially revolutionary applications of digital technology for social change I have seen anywhere in the world. The partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab creates the possibility of true glocal transnational collaboration.”
Gilberto Gil (musician and Minister of Culture of Brazil) say that. ‘A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal vision of property’ … ‘No country, not the US, not Europe, can stand in the way of it. It’s a global trend. It’s part of the very process of civilization.”
