A partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab

• Q: What are Digital Hotspots?
• A: Five years, $8,000,000 and 650 cultural hotspots combine in this active and energetic social experiment. Not a utopian wish but a concrete project, alive in many areas of Brazil, empowering and engaging marginalized communities and creating an active network of individuals that have leapt from pre-literate obscurity straight into socially active cyberculture.

Communicate

This project is open to partnerships and the best way to enter the conversation would be joining our open mailing list. You can browse the open archives to see what you are getting yourself into.

To get directly in touch write to Gordon Knox at: gknox@stanford.edu

More info

• Visit our wiki
• Video of our February 20th 2008 event with Claudio Prado
• Hotspot videos on the Internet Archive
• What happens when brilliant engineers meet brilliant artists? Gordon Knox, was interviewed by Forbes on the subject of innovation at the confluence of art and technology.
• Review of Hewlett event
• Oct 2005 discussion of Claudio Prado’s UK speech
• Article by Doug Hind, April 2007

Endorsements

Larry Lessig (Stanford professor of law and founder of Creative Commons) has called this initiative: “one of the most exciting and potentially revolutionary applications of digital technology for social change I have seen anywhere in the world. The partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab creates the possibility of true glocal transnational collaboration.”

Gilberto Gil (musician and Minister of Culture of Brazil) say that. ‘A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal vision of property’ … ‘No country, not the US, not Europe, can stand in the way of it. It’s a global trend. It’s part of the very process of civilization.”