MetaReciclagem is an open network formed by people located in different parts of Brazil and abroad. Its members develop decentralized projects and actions that seek the appropriation of technology and media production by using a participatory methodology that promotes education, social engagement and innovation. They managed to start up more than a dozen of autonomous low-tech laboratories and many other independent projects sponsored by the... Read more

Felipe Fonseca is co-founder of MetaReciclagem, researcher and coordinator of projects related to collective production, independent media, open software and critical appropriation of technology. Felipe Fonseca has been one of the coordinators of the Digital Culture project, and responsible for developing the online interfaces to over 600 media centers that have been implemented by the Brazil's Ministry of Culture. Read more

Teemu Leinonen (born in 1969) has worked in research and development of online education for more than a decade. His areas of interest and his expertise include issues such as design applied to teaching, computerbased collective learning, online cooperation, design of software for learning, educational planning and policies... Since 1998, Teemu manages the Learning Environments research group at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, where he has coordinated research and... Read more

The Telekommunisten group was founded on May 1st 2006. It aims to put venture communism into practice. Based on the premise that Politics power is an extension of Economics power, venture communism says that workers in the world will not be able to cope with the problems imposed by capitalism and the corporation’s rules, unless they first produce and share in a different way, leaving the task force under a community shared production, thereby reducing the extraction... Read more

Constant is a group of artists based in Brussels. They link theoretical thinking, critical use of new technologies, artistic behaviour and political debate on the Internet, while they also organize workshops, conferences and exhibitions in public spaces. The main issues they deal with are: open software and open licenses, gender issues, issues concerning Copyleft (and copyright), as well as new ways of sharing new media’s knowledge. Read more