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[Felipe Fonseca]

On 3/8/07, Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Brazil is an interesting case in this point.
> Slightly unexpected for early adaptors and the founders of Orkut (a
> classic Web 2.0 site, I would say), millions of Brazilians took over
> this social networking site.

Indeed. If you enter right now in a telecenter in Brasil, few people
won't be accessing orkut ot chatting in MSN messenger or a free
software using MSN network.

> I would analyse Web 2.0 from a post-development point of view, even in
> poor countries. If and when NGOs and ministeries will catch with Web
> 2.0 or not is not such an interesting question. The people are so far
> ahead of them, and that's a good thing, I would say.

Anyway, in some eccentric projects there are some things being done.
Yesterday I was filling the forms to enter Conversê in prix ars "digital
communities" award. Text here:

http://culturadigital.org.br/tiki-index.php?page=ConversePrixArs2007

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