I think it is a a *very* good idea, but I think anything involving hardware can't be sponsored by WMF
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Leinonen Teemu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Right, Jane. The ”box" is not connected to the internet but is a mass > storage with WiFi. People can access the content saved to the device with > their mobile phones. > > There are initiatives to provide Internet connections to the refugee > camps, as it is nowadays relatively high in a priority list (probably right > after the sanitation, water, food, health services and electricity). Still, > I am afraid that there are many less well-organized refugee camps where > there are no internet connection. In these locations thousands of people > could find the offline content, such as the one provided by the > internet-in-box very useful. > > This would be a nice way to realize our mission "to disseminate > educational content effectively and globally". > > - Teemu > > PS. In general I am against offline-Wikipedia but exceptional situations > need exceptional solutions. > > > On 8.9.2015, at 10.13, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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> > > -------------------------------------------------- > Teemu Leinonen > http://teemuleinonen.fi > +358 50 351 6796 > Media Lab > http://mlab.uiah.fi > Aalto University > School of Arts, Design and Architecture > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
