Brazil’s place in the web world is undisputed! Despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of its population does not have access to the internet, Brazil beats all other countries in terms of hours spent online. And maybe that’s why Campus Party came to Brazil after a few turns in Spain.
The event happened in São Paulo on the week of February 11th and convened professionals from different areas (astronomy, robotics, open source software, gaming, simulation, computer modeling, music and blogs) to discuss technology, content and entertainment. Participants camped out at the site’s location, where alcoholic beverages and drugs were explicitly prohibited. There were over 360 lectures offered, workshops and debates over the course of one week.
Brazil has hosted what some call the biggest network electronic entertainment event in the world shows how the country is bound to become an incubator of tech projects, as seen by the Center of Advanced Systems in Recife, in the Northeastern state of Pernambuco. Moral of the story: Brazil is consolidating its position as a new global technological pole.
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Its suprising to see, BRAZIL dominate the Internet Market,even though penentration is not much there. I guess they are doing great on social networking,and quite a lot of traffic from our server comes from Brazil too.
Regards
Kartik
http://fashionnetworking.blogspot.com
February 29th, 2008 at 3:11 am
interesting stat: the most famous shantytown (”favela”) in Brazil, called Rocinha, is where you have the largest concentration of cyber cafés in Brazil per square meter. some hypotheses for this (not validated by research; just observational): poor educational system makes people search elsewhere for inspiration, high crime rates in urban centers dissuade people from leaving the house, social disposition and extrovertedness is in every brazilian’s DNA…food for thought…
February 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pm