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...Brazilian government has adopted an open position regarding new technologies and the sharing of these new technologies, a flexibility of law and of regulation to allow the spread of sharing,” Gil says...
According to Gil, the Brazilian government is more than doing its part...
...also spoke of the idea of “culture points” during his lecture at Harvard, describing the current network of 260 centers open to the Brazilian public where, according to Gil, anyone has access to the use of equipment for artistic projects. The goal for 2006, Gil explains, is 1,000 of these culture points, concentrated in poverty-stricken areas, where manifestations of culture can be a positive force for the community, especially the younger generations. Not only would these cultural centers be individually effective, but according to Gil, they would also...
...Financial Times announced that Summers had “found himself embroiled in controversy after the leaking of an internal memorandum.” Indeed, the weeks following the Economist leak made Summers the target of a barrage of shock and fury from environmentalist groups and policy makers. Brazilian officials filed a protest with the World Bank, while Greenpeace took the honor of being the first group ever to call for Summers’ resignation. The Boston Globe dubbed him the “enfant terrible of global liberalism,” and as criticism continued to escalate, the rest...
...necessary whenever the public or the press is within earshot, according to Murray. One wrong word could send the dollar into a tailspin or destroy a foreign economy. Paul O’Neill, for example, Summers’ successor at the Treasury, single-handedly caused the collapse of the Brazilian real when he said the country needed to guarantee that aid money “doesn’t just go out of the country to Swiss bank accounts...