Onderwerp : [Etc-br] site internacional

meninas

atualizei o blog do carnaval internacional com o seguinte texto.. qq 
coisa gritem! ;)
http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/node/324

seria bacana ter uma versão em espanhol hein? pena que yo no hablo 
nadica de nada... ;))

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As we have heard from many researches and personal testimonies from this 
nation-wide country, access and use of tics in brazil it is still a very 
limited reality. The numbers vary a lot from state from state, but one 
pattern is perceived: most of the Brazilian population (those who earn 
less then r$500 a month) only represents 3% of the people connected to 
the internet, mostly using computers from public telecenters and school 
labs. 87% of the brazilian net users are from a higher-income family. (1)

state distribution of brazilian net users:
Distrito Federal 31% (center-west/capital of brazil)
São Paulo com 27% (southeast)
Curitiba tem 23% (sount)
Porto Alegre 21% (south)
Salvador 18% (northeast)
Fortaleza 8%. (northeast)

One of the few researches that address women in this complex scenario 
obviously focus on that big chunk of net users. At the Brazilian 
Computing Society site, we find that the low number of women that begin 
to study Computing in universities is getting even smaller. Basically 
from 30% of women 15 years ago today they represent 5% of the university 
students. (2)

Even thought there is a great suppport from the brazilian government - 
specially at the federal level, also with great national disparities, as 
usual - plus a very strong, creative and autonomous civil society 
movement supporting, experimenting and using free software, during the 
last latin american free software forum (3) there was only 2 proposals 
from the 479 speakers to talk on gender issues from 27 countries - a 
major track fo the encounter. None from Brazil. Giving the reality that 
women constitute 51,2% of the population, we begin by asking: what 
strategies should we use to find these women?

/etc-br is encounter-convergence of women that are thinking, 
experimenting and appropriating critically from a diverse of media 
technologies. we know we are few, but we struggle to give visibility and 
promote spaces for learning and sharing, having a focus on gender issues 
or co-laborating alongside other women, we organize ourselves by 
afinitties more than identities, gathering at a given place to play, 
study, conceptualize and celebrate the retaking of technology.

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/etc-br discussion list (portuguese) -> 
http://systerserver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/etc-br
site (portuguese) -> http://midiatatica.org/g2g/etc/
development site (portuguese) -> 
http://midiatatica.org/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=CarnavalecleticoTech
info in english (this site) -> 
http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/node/324/
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(1) http://www.jornaldaciencia.org.br/Detalhe.jsp?id=39303
(2) http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6583
(3) http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/

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