Brazil: New iCommons Chairman
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Heather Ford of iCommons announces that Brazilian lawyer Ronaldo Lemos will take over Joi Ito's role as Chairman. The next iCommons Summit will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June 15 - 17.
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Heather Ford of iCommons announces that Brazilian lawyer Ronaldo Lemos will take over Joi Ito's role as Chairman. The next iCommons Summit will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June 15 - 17.
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This is a bit like putting Porfirio Diaz in charge of agrarian reform in Mexico, in my opinion, especially after he presided over that the shameful spectacle that was iCommons Rio last year.
http://cbrayton.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/brazilian-indies-protest-cc-mft-partnership/
So congratulations ARE in order: To the media latifuniários who managed to infilitrate their man. I say that with all due respect.
As brazilian I can say that this mr. Colin Brayton needs to learn a lot more about my country. The things he says about politics and public safety in the country are wrong and misinformed, like this http://cbrayton.wordpress.com/2007/01/13/this-we-hope-is-not-what-public-security-in-brazil-will-look-like-this-year/#respond