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CriptoFrevo Is Making Its Way!
Recife is a city of contrasts. From the meeting of mangroves and mirrored buildings, of wide rivers and narrow alleys, of the frenzy that takes over street corners during Carnival and the many streets that remain almost deserted for the rest of the year. It is a capital of technological innovation and, at the same time, a guardian of deeply popular and rooted cultural expressions. It is in this restless and creative territory that CriptoFrevo was born: an event that connects culture, technology, and human rights from a critical and locally grounded perspective.
CriptoFrevo presents itself as a space for collective creation, where street crowds and digital multitudes meet. In its third edition, in addition to exploring the intersections between culture, technology, and rights, we bring environmental issues as a cross-cutting theme. We seek to reflect on the impacts of the digital age on ecosystems and human ways of life, and to highlight practices of resistance that emerge from popular culture, everyday inventiveness, and bottom-up innovation—either by sustaining resistance or by reinventing paths toward a sustainable, free, just, and creative society.
A Pernambucan CriptoFesta
Inspired by CryptoParties, a decentralized global movement that promotes workshops and gatherings on digital security, CriptoFrevo brings together technical and cultural knowledge to think about forms of protection, autonomy, and resistance in the digital environment.
CryptoParties emerged with the goal of making knowledge about privacy and cryptography accessible to everyone, as a way to strengthen civil liberties in the use of technology.
In this spirit, CriptoFrevo promotes debates and practices focused on privacy, freedom of expression, and technological autonomy, treating cryptography both as a technological tool and as a foundation for safe cultural creation that guarantees rights and tools for artists and technicians.
More than bringing technology and culture closer together, we seek to broaden the debate on digital justice from Recife, grounding it in local, accessible, and collaborative practices.
Learn more at criptofrevo.ip.rec.br
