Usuário:Vince
Email pro Ushahidi.com
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:49:41 -0300
Dear Ushahidi Team,
I'm Vince from the "Casa de Cultura Tainã" located in Campinas - Brazil. Our Cultural House is commemorating 20th year of activities and fight. We started since 6 years a communication network between quilombos[1] communities called "Rede Mocambos"[2]. We focus on sharing knowledge to empower local communities with cultural, social, human and technological development, preserving environment, preserving history and african and indigenous identities and traditional cultures. We work with digital inclusion adopting free and open technologies..
We got 3 years ago an important result signing a cooperation agree with Brazilian Ministery of Communication[3] and right now the network connect more than 140 communities to internet using bidirectional satellite connection. We also participate of Brazilian Ministry of Culture project "Pontos de Cultura"[4], started by musician Ministry Gilberto Gil, based also on Casa de Cultura Tainã experience. Our work was recognised with biggest Brazilian title in November 2006 that is "Ordem ao Merito Cultural" given by Brazilian President of the Republic, Lula and Ministry Of Culture, Gilberto Gil[5].
We believe that traditional communities can get better auto-determination and better life quality with new technologies but not in the classic digital inclusion way, that is buying computers, give internet connection and making new consumers of the economy system, like passively using facebook, msn, youtube & co. We're working on research and development, teaching people in Casa de Cultura Tainã, same as others regional Rede Mocambos centers called "Núcleos de Formação" in other 9 places in Brazil.
We like very much your work and we'd like to work someway together.. We will be also happy to receive you here.
We started using ushahidi to collect and organize information to better support our fights: http://mapa.mocambos.net
We will happy to start some bridge with you and also some quick active technical exchanges.
Abraço, Vince
[1] see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilombo
[2] see http://www.mocambos.net
[3] see http://www.idbrasil.gov.br
[4] see http://www.cultura.gov.br/culturaviva
[5] see http://www.mocambos.net/videos/taina-ordem-ao-merito-cultural/view
Casa de Cultura Tainã / Rede Mocambos
Email pro Gandi.net
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:25:39 -0300
Dear Gandi Team,
I'm Vincenzo from the Casa de Cultura Tainã located in Campinas - Brazil. Our Cultural House is commemorating 20th year of activities and fight. We started since 2 years a network of communities called "Rede Mocambos" (see http://www.mocambos.net ). We focus on empowering local communities with cultural, social, human and technological development, preserving environment, preserving history and identity like african, indigenous and traditional culture. We work with digital inclusion adopting free technologies (like FLOSS).. We signed a cooperation with Brazilian Ministery on Communication (see http://www.idbrasil.gov.br ) and right now we connected 27 Quilombos communities to internet using bidirectional satellite connection. We also makes part of Brazilian Ministry of Culture well known project "Pontos de Cultura" (see http://www.cultura.gov.br/cultura_viva/ ), leaded by musician Ministry Gilberto Gil. Our work was recognised with biggest Brazilian title in November 2006 that is "Ordem ao Merito Cultural" given by Brazilian President of the Republic, Lula and Ministry Of Culture, Gilberto Gil (see http://www.mocambos.net/videos/taina-ordem-ao-merito-cultural ).
The network is growing very fast and next July we're going to make first Rede Mocambos national meeting (maybe international since we're linking with communities in Mozambique and Angola and we're trying to grant their presence).
We believe that traditional communities can get better auto-determination and better life quality with new technologies but not in the classic digital inclusion way, that is buying computers, give internet connection and making new consumers of economy system, like using orkut, msn, youtube & co. We're working on research and development, forming people in Casa de Cultura Tainã and we're going to start others regional centres "Núcleos de Formação" in other 3 places in Brazil.
We like very much your work and we would like to work together.. We will be also happy to receive you here.
Abraço, Vince
Casa de Cultura Tainã / Rede Mocambos
