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Brazilian Digital Culture's community to democratically create and build a public policy of digital culture, integrating citizens, government institutions, state companies, civil society and the market. The site is run by the Brazilian Culture Ministry and uses BuddyPress (Wordpress).

A Tibetan singer trying to preserve his culture as many Tibetans live in exile in different parts of the world, and the threat of the PRC trying to eliminate the Tibetan language from schools. He sells CDs of his music on his website and uses the proceeds to save the Tibetan culture.

Save Lahu online community to preserve Lahu culture, especially among Lahu youth. Created during DSN workshops.

New York magazine posted an essay on one cultural consequence of the world as a data-stream, the death of the narrative.

There's no denying the cultural impact of Facebook. It has united almost 700 million people, including most of you reading this, becoming the greatest social introduction platform the world has ever seen. But there are also some recent signs of "Facebook fatigue." There is only so much you can do to socialize online, especially after you've exhausted your friend list. Some people also complain they're spending so much time on Facebook that they're short-changing the rest of their lives.

Tim Terriss observations from living and working around the world.