Congratulations to Havering Council’s web team for their site which has been awarded shortlist status in the 2006 Accountancy Age Awards. (That makes two out of two awards I’ve written getting shortlisted – one for the CV).
I see the online schools admissions and browsealoud accessibility software are both up and running, which is cool too.
Like the site for foreigners in Brazil, www.gringoes.com, which I chanced across yesterday. As usual it gives a few interesting outsider insights into Brazilian culture:
1. Brazil is very bureaucratic, and hierarchical society.
2. Brazil is very people-centred in business.
3. You need to speak the language.
But then it’s also what you as a person bring to Brazil – your own personal ‘jinga’. Hey, I’ve got the Brazilian sociology of Paulo Friere on my side so that also helps to understand a few tough facts of life. But if I go to live there I might just pay a gringo who has learned the language to teach me first. But then again why not use a real Brazilian tutuor!?