Well.. this is imaginable scale - I don't think if WMF have enough resources to provide free internet to such a huge group of people packed in a number of huge camps sometimes without basic facilities such as electricity... See the picture of just one camp:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Aerial_View_of_the_Za'atri_Refugee_Camp.jpg Syrian people live in camps in Lebanon and Turkey for third year (since 2012)... There is even not enough basic schools and simple paper textbooks for children... 2015-09-07 21:45 GMT+02:00 Leinonen Teemu <[email protected]>: > 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> -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ 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>
