Overmundo

From Cyberlaw

The Overmundo project was established by the "Group of Ideas Movimento", a partnership between Hermano Vianna, Ronaldo Lemos (who is the director of the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, and others. It seeks to provide a cultural resource throughout Brazil by reporting from each of the 27 states within the country. Each state has a paid correspondent, and furthermore, it will set up a network of blogs that users of the site will be able to obtain. Stories from the blogs can be voted to the front page, and the interactive network of users will determine which stories are reported on.

The Cultura Livre (Free Culture) project is a website set up in English and Portuguese aimed at Brazil and South Africa to inform people internationally about various WIPO proceedings and explain in plain language why such decisions affect the world at large. Furthermore, it reports on various free culture-related topics in both English and Portuguese.

Chat log w/ Nesson:

elizabeth stark: greetings from brazil!

elizabeth stark: ronaldo says hello

charlesnesson: whoa, hi

charlesnesson: brazil, nice

charlesnesson: where

elizabeth stark: rio!

elizabeth stark: at fgv actually

charlesnesson: please say hi to ronaldo

elizabeth stark: will do

elizabeth stark: i LOVE the work they are doing here

elizabeth stark: as i was telling everyone that night at dinner

elizabeth stark: one of my very good friends and ronaldo's right hand man here at FGV (hehe) is applying for an LLM at harvard

charlesnesson: connections connections

elizabeth stark: yup

elizabeth stark: i hope it works out..you would love him

elizabeth stark: and the projects they're doing here..

elizabeth stark: have you heard about overmundo?

charlesnesson: no

elizabeth stark: ohhh i'll have to update you on the brazil projects

elizabeth stark: i think it would be a good frame of reference for potential things to do in jamaica as well

elizabeth stark: (although perhaps on a smaller scale)

charlesnesson: i look forward to it

elizabeth stark: www.overmundo.com.br

elizabeth stark: also, there's www.culturalivre.org.br

elizabeth stark: and i'm helping out w/ the canto livre project

elizabeth stark: which i'm sure you've heard about

charlesnesson: overmundo is in portugese, which i don't read (sniff)

elizabeth stark: yeah, sorry : (

elizabeth stark: i can explain the concept to you

elizabeth stark: it hasn't officially launched

elizabeth stark: this is the pre-site

elizabeth stark: basically they are going to have 27 correspondents throughout brazil

elizabeth stark: reporting on things that brazilians would otherwise not have access to

elizabeth stark: (kind of like the posts that are there now)

elizabeth stark: then they are going to have a set of blogs

elizabeth stark: and people can vote certain stories from the blogs to the homepage

charlesnesson: nice, kind of like david russcol's tool for blog entries

elizabeth stark: yup, but it's a whole network i guess

elizabeth stark: plus i think the point is that they're paying correspondents to report on things around brazil that people wouldn't otherwise have access to, plus i think they're going to host audio/video content

elizabeth stark: ronaldo really knows more about it

elizabeth stark: he's very excited about the project