A drumbeat of ideas shook São Paulo in the last 11th and 12th of June in a gathering organized by the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with Esfera and SESC SP. The meeting, baptized of Drumbeat promoted discussions about and for the Open Web, so that no one needs to ask permission in order to create projects at the internet (not even to governments or companies). What is the Open Web? It is a struggle for the web to keep accessible to everyone in terms of infrastructure, access and open pattern technologies.

The fisrt day of the event was reserved to invited participants, who had the opportunity to interact and define methods and themes to discuss on the next day. Themes like Content Production, Collaboration, Cultural Apropriation, Global Identity X Regional, the Infrastructure to Access the web on Brazil, Connections and the Limited and Unlimited Usage of the web etc… provoked many discussions among the participants.

The second day, open to the public, had participation of professionals like librarians, engineers, programmers, studants, journalists… areas so diverse and plural that SESC’s room seemed to mimic in a minimized way the own web itself.

What we took from the drumbeat?

The event brought us to think about the importance of the Open Web. By the end of the first day, one of the team members, started a chorus togheter with all participants singing “From where comes the drumbeat? It comes from the river head!” And where is the river head? Where does start the flow of ideas, actions and people who make the web and the free society? It is beside and inside each one of us. It is up to us and to you to participate, react, and colaborate with the web through projects, ideas and joining the fight for freedom in the most connected environment of all: the internet. See you on the #drumbeat at Amazon.

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