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September 19th, 2006

Translating Claroline into Quechua, Aymara, and Guaraní

Editor's Note: It has already been mentioned several times on Global Voices that the world's first Quechua, Guaraní, or Aymara native speaker to blog has yet to arrive. There are several obvious reasons including lack of broadband penetration into the Andes, high cost of internet access, and the absence of ...

April 10th, 2006

Brazil: Pontes Touches Down

Brazilian bloggers' reactions to the space flight of Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian astronaut, run the gamut along a scale from enthusiasm to cynicism. At the "unqualified joy" end of the scale an amateur radio operator in the northerneastern state of Piauí was positively effervescent over a Piauense's ham radio conversation ...

January 27th, 2006

The Race to Wire Brazil

The $100 laptop (previously covered here at Global Voices) isn’t the only contender out there designed to bring personal computers into the lives of a broader spectrum of Brazilian society, as a spin around Brazilian blogs will attest: O Velho introduces Microsoft’s recent launch into the Brazilian mass market. ...