Felipe Fonseca

Current

• Researcher at Weblab.tk
• Member at Foundation for P2P Alternatives
• Founder at MetaReciclagem

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Past

• Consultant at eCommunita
• Researcher at IPTI

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Connections

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Industry

Program Development

Websites

• Desvio//Weblab
• Mutirão da Gambiarra
• MetaReciclagem

Felipe Fonseca’s Summary

Felipe Schmidt Fonseca is a brasilian media activist and independent researcher working in the fields of technological appropriation, low tech experimentation, free (livre) and open source multimedia software, open licensing, distributed learning and online collaboration. He has been lead articulator in projects such as MetaReciclagem.org, an emergent brasilian movement regarding low tech labs and projects; DesCentro.org, a de-centralized research organisation; and Bricolabs.net, an international network of experimental labs. Felipe has acted also as a consultant for the brasilian Ministry of Culture in the Cultura Digital project, that brought critical ICT use for more than 600 cultural centers throughout Brasilian territory.

Felipe Fonseca’s Specialties:

* Online collaboration management
* Collective creativity processes
* Management of distributed networks
* Planning and coordination of projects related to F(L)OSS and multimedia production, technological appropriation, emergent collaboration and distributed learning, open licensing and free culture
* Configuration and use of online collaboration / e-learning free and open source software
** weblogs - wordpress, nucleus
** wikis - mediawiki, wikka
** CMSs - drupal, xoops
** LMSs - moodle

Felipe Fonseca’s Experience

• Researcher

  Weblab.tk

  (Internet industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Working with diferent projects related to collaboration technologies for social change.

• Member

  Foundation for P2P Alternatives

  (Program Development industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

• Founder

  MetaReciclagem

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)

  Founder and articulator of the MetaReciclagem project, a distributed network of people working with a de-constructive approach to information technology in social, artistic and educational contexts.

Additional Information

Felipe Fonseca’s Websites:

• Desvio//Weblab
• Mutirão da Gambiarra
• MetaReciclagem

Felipe Fonseca’s Interests:

collaborative innovation processes, free and open source multimedia production, low tech, technological appropriation, content management systems, social technology

Felipe Fonseca’s Honors:

Prix Ars Electronica 2006 - Honorary Mention in Digital Communities category for MetaReciclagem
APC Prêmio Betinho de Comunicações 2006 - Honorary mention for MetaReciclagem

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