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Henrik BennetsenCultural Hotspots Event with Claudio Prado (2008)

Digital Hotspots: A partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab

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.”

Digital Hotspots: Five years, $8,000,000 and 650 cultural hotspots combine in this active and energetic social experiment. 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.

The Brazil/Stanford partnership discussed here lays out the history, the process, the partners and the potential of this government initiative. It lays out the steps and importance of transforming this initiative into a global non-governmental entity.


LINKS:

* Hotspot Videos: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=cultura_digital
* Review of Hewlett event: http://www.archive.org/details/cultura_digital
* Oct 2005 discussion of Claudio’s UK speech: http://www.mazine.ws/node/160
* Article by Doug Hind, April 2007: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-ann-0704/msg00095.html


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Director: Henrik Bennetsen
Producer: Stanford Humanities Lab
Production Company: Stanford Humanities Lab
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: culturalhotspots "stanford humanities lab" stanford "open source" brazil

Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0 United States

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Reviewer: Priscila02 - - July 19, 2008
Subject: Claudio Prado
Hello,

I am a dual citizen of Brasil and the United Stated who would like to participate in current events for bringing and building knowledge to be able to return to Brasil. I am currently working for a sofwtare development company and have spent many hours into learning and understanding the evolution os social networks in economics.

Please contact me via email at mondobrasil@hotmail.com for further discussion.

Thank you,

Priscila Felipe