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Marcelo Thompson
I am formally a lawyer who specializes on technology issues. In my spare time, I am also a (bad) poet and a philosopher wannabe. I am currently reading for a DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Kellogg College. Find more in my [http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/thompson/bio blog.]


Marcelo Thompson Mello Guimarães is a former Attorney-General of the Brazilian Information Technology Institute - ITI, under the Office of the President of Brazil (2004-2005), where he headed the legal team in charge of both the Brazilian Free Software Programme and the Brazilian Public Key Infrastructure.
Btw, I come from Brazil - Brazil of Samba, Soccer, and [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html Free Culture.]
 
Prior to that, Marcelo was the Head of the Department of Litigation (2003-2004) and an Attorney within the Venture Capital division (2002-2003) of the Brazilian Innovation Agency - FINEP, under the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. He was also a Part-Time Information Technology Law Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2002-2003), from where he holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (2000) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (2002). Marcelo also holds a Master of Laws with Concentration in Law and Technology from the University of Ottawa’s Law & Technology Program (2005-2006), where he focused his dissertation on the interplay between copyright and human rights - or, more precisely, on the right of access to knowledge as a human right.
 
Marcelo is currently reading a Doctorate of Philosophy in ‘Information, Communication and the Social Sciences‘ PRS at Kellogg College and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford where he focuses his major research on "neutrality and identity in the information age", with a full scholarship from The CAPES Foundation, of the Brazilian Ministry of Education.

Latest revision as of 16:52, 29 April 2007

I am formally a lawyer who specializes on technology issues. In my spare time, I am also a (bad) poet and a philosopher wannabe. I am currently reading for a DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Kellogg College. Find more in my blog.

Btw, I come from Brazil - Brazil of Samba, Soccer, and Free Culture.

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