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Brazil - Hillary and Delma

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the first summit of the Open Government Partnership. Both leaders have defended open data as a means for combatting corruption and improving government transparency. (Photo: Agência Brasil)

Brazil: Launch a Digital Map That Uses Open Data to Monitor the Amazon

In Partnership With: 
Folha de Sao Paulo
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ABRAJI

Gustavo Faleiros is a Knight International Journalism Fellow based in Brazil who has created a comprehensive online map that makes extensive use of data to track the deteriorating environment of the nine-country Amazon region. The map—a mash-up of existing technologies such as satellite images, open data and media and social-media feeds—is hosted by partner O Eco, an environmental news site, and supported by a grant from Internews.

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Nov 212011

Brazil’s Largest Daily Expands Multimedia Blog for Underserved Communities

As a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Brazil, Bruno Garcez launched the Mural multimedia blog for citizens in Sao Paulo’s poor neighborhoods. Now hosted and supported by the country’s largest daily newspaper, the blog is thriving… and the number of citizen-journalist bloggers is growing.

Nov 242010

Brazilian Blog Gets An Impressive New Home

by Bruno Garcez

Editors Note: A web address change for Mural, a leading citizen journalist blog in São Paulo.

Mural, the blog that comprises news stories and videos by more than 50 volunteer bloggers and citizen journalists, is moving today to a new address.

Brazilian Blog Gets An Impressive New Home

Bruno pictured with one of the first groups of students trained in Mural workshops. (Photo: Eduardo Anizelli/Folhapress)

Brazilian Blog Gets An Impressive New Home

Bruno pictured with one of the first groups of students trained in Mural workshops. (Photo: Eduardo Anizelli/Folhapress)

Election of Brazil’s First Female President Offers Lessons for Reporters

Rouseff was elected to become Brazil’s first female president on Sunday, October 31. (Photo by Isaac Ribeiro)

Sep 302010

The ''opposition party''

by Bruno Garcez

Editor's Note: Knight Fellow Bruno Garcez discusses the upcoming Brazilian Presidential Elections.

The elections this Sunday, the 3rd, in Brazil, until very recently seemed to be heading to a very predictable outcome

The three main Presidential contenders lack the charisma of the current incumbent, Mr.

Sep 212010

One happy student

by Bruno Garcez

Another group was trained under the Mural workshops. A course that focuses on recruiting and training community correspondents reporting from the outskirts of São Paulo.