I came across an article from Paula Martini in iCommons, where she gives interesting insights about Overmundo, a web 2.0 platform that attempts to closes this gap in cultural coverage and diffusion within Brazil. If you live in Brazil and outside of what is there called the “eixo Rio-São Paulo” (the Rio-São Paulo axis), you mainly don’t get any cultural coverage in the media, and when so it is from the view of the center, not from the “periphery”. It is fully made by user-generated contributions and completely automated, drawing inspirations from many Web 2.0 platforms such as Digg and Slashdot.
In the video below Dr. Ronaldo Lemos, from the Center for Technology and Society of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Rio, one of the founders of Overmundo and chairman of iCommons, receives the Nica Prize for best community project in the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. I know this is old news, but the video contains a very good explanation of what Overmundo is. Since I will use it as one of the case studies for my thesis, why not showing it again.
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