Discussion with Gilberto Gil (and sometimes Claudio Prado) at Teia, Belo Horizonte 09.11.2007. As part of this festival a meeting of participants in the Pontos de Cultura Program was held where Gil answered questions from people in an exercise of direct government. Pontos de Cultura and the digital culture project are an effort by the Brazilian Government to spread digital culture, free software and copyleft ideas in cultural organisations in Brazil.
because we have to take the internet everywhere, to the periphery and
to the center, to the middle class districts to universities and poor
neighborhoods also because of the necessity of exchanging ideas
between center and periphery. what you are going to do? isolate the
periphery? with an understand inclusion is one thing that is given to
all social sectors at the same time. (...) the inclusion has to have
this meaning, of contemporarity, concomitance, a new richness that is
going to be distributed at the same time, a symbolism, besided the
