Gilberto Gil’s Talk: What a Minister of Culture!!
Luca @ June 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Since 2003, when I took office as Minister of Culture of Brazil, we have been looking into Digital Technologies as cultural phenomena.
We, at the ministry, have insisted on the strategic role of culture in policy making. This has obliged us to change radically the way to conceive of Politics, State, Society specially in relation to […]
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Sterling Reviews the OLPC
Luca @ February 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic reviews the OLPC at LIFT Conference. The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) is a ICT4D non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 “$100 laptop”. Both the project and the organization were […]
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The Right to Food
Ilari Valbonesi @ October 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
More than 150 countries around the world will observe World Food Day this year, organizing special events, conferences, contests, sports activities and a global candlelight vigil on “The Right to Food”.
FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day the Organization was founded in 1945 in Quebec City, Canada. This year’s […]
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Sputnik Day 2007
Luca @ October 3, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The 4th of Ocotber is the Sputnik Day 2007 and many artists decided to celebrate the event with perfomraces held in the cyberspace and around the world.
Here just the list of the appointment of tomorrow all around the globe:
CET 0:00 am | Local Time 02:00 am
Cologne - Peter Simon: KOSMOCHORDS
Peter created a special Sputik song […]
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Journalism shoutdown
Luca @ May 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In the last ten years the main towers of power of Italy has been overwhelmed by many cases like Bancopoli, Calciopoli, Vallettopoli, Ricattopoli, Tronchettopoli, Spiopoli….
The towers, of course, are still there, and in fact a strong reaction started against the journalist that will pubblish “reserved informations”: ten days ago the Chamber voted with 447 votes, […]
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Solar Energy: a green Italian Minister think it is a bet?!!
Luca @ April 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Paolo Cento, that has this wonderful blog http://www.paolocento.it/BLOG, today, talking about solar energy at the national radio channel, defined it “a bet”…..??
I mean, we’re in 2007, not in 80’s, and solar energy is no more a bet.
Besides that, Paolo Cento is even an important member of the green party, so if not even the green […]
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Digital Divide Sunset’s in South Italy
antonio @ March 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In the South Italy the history of divide from the rest of the world is a long story. In my age (still young) I was living the ‘water divide’, I got current water in my house in 1976. I remember me going to the public fountain getting the water in a small container.
Today, march 14th […]
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