all they need is wifi to connect to the box I think, so it would be just one box not connected to the internet with a wifi access. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/surprised-that-syrian-refugees-have-smartphones-well-sorry-to-break-this-to-you-but-youre-an-idiot-10489719.html?cmpid=facebook-post
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
