[wsfii-discuss] Hello from Brasil!!!

Mon Sep 12 21:10:30 UTC 2005

Hello everyone, Rufus
First let me introduce myself, My name is Otavio Savietto, I'm currently 
working at the brazilian Ministry of Culture, 
more specificaly at the Digital Culture, the government program for free 
knowledge and free media, widelly spread thrugout the country. 
It all started with Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil's involvement with the 
activists (from various tendencies , open souce software, Free 
Knowledge,Free Media, licencing of his songs thru Creative Commons, and many 
other actions). The person who materialized the revolutionary ideas behind 
Minister Gil's speeches Is Claudio Prado, the current Digital Policies 
Coordinator for the Ministry of Culture, who is the head of the Digital 
Culture program. 
This materialization happened thru the creation of the Free Studio, a kit 
composed of computers, digital video cameras, digital photo cameras, audio 
mixers, satellite broadband connections and the colaborative development/use 
of free/open source software. Those kits are distributed to many Cultural 
Hotspots spread all over Brasil, and the production of music, videos, 
animation, documentation is colaborative and massive!!!
The reason behind all this explanation is simple: Claudio Prado is trully 
interested in participating and to contribute somehow on the WSFII, more 
specifically on the Free Culture, Free Media discussion.
We are starting a new international part of the Program, and Claudio Prado 
and Minister Gil are going to attend many events in England and Europe 
during the following months, and the WSIS at Tunis, Tunisia.
We'd like to hear what you guys think, and we're glad to help with any 
questions.
Cheers
Otavio Savietto
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/wsfii-discuss/attachments/20050912/f62c0cc4/attachment-0001.html>