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Segue abaixo o texto e slides da apresentação de José Murilo, Gerente de Cultura Digital do Ministério da Cultura, na sessão da Coalizão Dinâmica de Acesso ao Conhecimento (A2K), por ocasião da Terceira Edição do Internet Governance Forum (IGF), em Hiderabad na India. Versão em português ao final do post.

Gilberto Gil

Brazilian Digital Culture
A case of public exercise of culture as a tool for progressive change in the global networked society

Digital Culture is a term that have emerged from the passage of Mr. Gilberto Gil as the head of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. He used to puzzle the media by calling himself a “Hacker Minister”, in the sense of studying the government mechanisms in order to customize it according to the dynamics of the present time.

Cultural Hotspots

His reflections on the radical use of new possibilities brought by the Internet were soon translated into action through the Cultural Hotspots program. The idea of the program was to empower established cultural groups or initiatives with the ability to digitize their content through open source audio and video editing software, and also foster the exchange of this content among the network of hotspots. The program would also encourages the use of alternative licenses like Creative Commons and Copyleft, allowing the remix and the open collaboration on the content with the other hotspots and the whole of society.

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