contrary to the name, it doesn't actually have 'internet access' ..they can read, but not contribute..
On 9/8/15, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Good idea. I watched a report on TV where they said some refugees have been > waiting for years for processing. It would be nice for them to be able to > use and maybe contribute to Wikipedia while they are waiting. Maybe we > should set up edit-a-thons and wikiclasses about life in Europe and the > politics of the crisis, for the refugees and the Europeans both! > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Leinonen Teemu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello people, >> >> Just an idea. Number of Syrian refugees is over 4,000,000 people, mostly >> residing in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.[1] Refugee camps are set in >> all in these countries.[2] >> >> Internet-in-a-Box[3] is a a WiFI-device with "Wikipedia in 37 languages, a >> library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world's open source software and >> source code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide >> mapping down to street level.” >> >> Could we as a movement get the internet-in-a-box to the refugee camps? >> >> - Teemu >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War >> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_refugee_camps >> [3] http://internet-in-a-box.org >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Teemu Leinonen >> http://teemuleinonen.fi >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Cometstyles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
