Sara Moreira
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Portuguese Language Countries EditorOnce upon a time there was a Software Engineer who was not exactly very into the mechanization of an alienated humanity and decided to work exclusively on stuff that really matter instead. Ended up in Timor Leste for a while, founded Moving Cause, came back home to Portugal and is now mainly interested on Free Culture, Independent Media and Social Change.
For more info visit my blog [pt], follow me on twitter (@saritamoreira) and check my Linkedin profile.
[Também escrevo / traduzo no Global Voices em Português.]
Latest posts by Sara Moreira
28 March 2012
Brazil
In the Document Freedom Day, March 28, Brazilian blogger and professor Ladislau Dowbor writes [pt] about open access to science, and questions the price of information. He also shares his views on the role of professors in the face of intelectual property, and an article about an online boycott by 8,209 researchers who are seeking to set academic research free.
22 March 2012
Cape Verde
Cape Verdean blogger and journalist Odair Varela has launched a creative writing competition [pt] that will last for one month. The first of four weekly challenges consists of writing about how the country will be in the year 2090 [pt]. The essays should be submitted until March 27, 2012.
20 March 2012
Portugal
Citizens from Porto are organizing a flash picket [pt] via Facebook to “welcome” the Prime Minister of Portugal, Pedro Passos Coelho, on the day of the anti-austerity general strike, March 22. The Prime Minister will be on an official visit to the University of Porto [pt], that celebrates its 101st anniversary this year.
16 March 2012
Portugal
Conhecer a Crise (Meet the Crisis) [pt] is the name of a recently launched website with info-graphics and visualisations on the main economic and social indicators that describe the current crisis in Portugal. The website has a customisable section [pt] - “The crisis as I see it” - where users can build their own page using existing data.
28 February 2012
Brazil
Pierre Larose, on his blog Discovering São Paulo, shares a video report on ‘a ballet school in São Paulo which has developed a method of “teaching by touch” in order to develop professional ballet dancers who are blind or visually impaired'. He adds that in 12 years approximately 300 dancers have graduated from the school.
24 February 2012
East Timor: Cats, Monsters in Pre-Election Video Humor
Less than one month to go for the presidential elections in East Timor, and one of the most original uses of citizen media in the anticipation of the elections is not serious at all - user Slogheinn on Youtube, has uploaded a series of humorous videos that mock four of the best known presidential candidates.
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22 February 2012
Cape Verde
The Great Adventure of Cape Verde's blog has posted a series of photos and one short clip featuring Carnival's celebrations.
21 February 2012
Angola
Maka, a website that monitors corruption in Angola, launched an online campaign petitioning CNN International to stop accepting advertisement from the government of President Dos Santos. The presidential budget for 2012 allocates about US$17 million for promoting a positive image of Angola on CNN International, through a company run by the Dos Santos family. CNN has issued a response.
17 February 2012
Sao Tome and Principe
Brazilian journalist Dani Moura, from Jornal Futura, published on her Youtube channel a series of short pieces on Sao Tome and Principe: she reported on education and children feeding in schools, on capoeira for social inclusion, and women entrepreneurship. She also interviewed the artists Kwame Sousa and Tomé Coelho [all links in pt].
I want to ask, there is not software to change from letter to letter Latin...