ministry of culture

The Cultura Digital (digital culture) program of the Ministry of Culture is initiated in order to enhance participatory (digital) culture. Its aim is to go beyond providing access to computers and Internet and to use digital communication technologies in order to disseminate culture digitally.

Articuladores was a group catalyzed by Claudio Prado to elaborate and implement the Cultura Digital strategy in the Ministry of Culture’s Pontos de Cultura project. Its members were recruited from collectives and groups such as MetaReciclagem, Submídia, Mídia Tática and the Brazilian Free Software movement.

The Ponto de Cultura (Culture Hotspots) is the flagship project of the Cultura Viva Program of the Ministry of Culture (MinC). It is the way the ministry found to fund existing cultural initiatives at community and grassroots levels. These initiatives enter a ministry edital which currently funds 22.500 Pontos de Cultura around the country. There is also the Pontão de Cultura which are "bigger" hotspots, involving a broader range of activities through articulation with other third/private sector institutions.

Ministry of Culture.

It is fair to say that there is a creative intensity in the Ministry of Culture — a restlessness to identify, map and ideally fund the most remote cultural manifestations in Brazil. The policies of Gilberto Gil’s mandate are long-lasting — his popularity with the art community is unanimous. The Ministry of Culture is in constant dialogue with the population and wants artists to define their art policies.