Charles - How beautiful. Thank you for doing and sharing this.
In what way was the partnership unexpected? Did the Bellevue prison
approach Wikipedians?
Here is the announcement page w/PDF from the WM-CH site:
SJ
SJ
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Now THIS is seriously clever!
Well done WMCH - that is a truly innovative way to provide access to
knowledge to a community who is often forgotten.
Can you link to the press release here, please?
-Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
On 17 June 2013 14:15, Charles Andrès <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikipedia for prisoners – an unexpected
partnership between a swiss prison
and Wikimedia CH
Following an initiative from Emmanuel Engelhart, with the support of
Wikimedia CH CAO, Chantal Ebongué, since March 2013, prisoners who request
can have an access to Wikipedia offline (Kiwix project). The idea is to
stimulate or to support the interest for education of prisoners who were,
for a large majority, condemned to long-time sentences.
After three months of pilot phasis, the project is successful : Among the
36 prisoners of the Bellevue’s prison in Gorgier, 18 possess or rent a
computer. All of them requested the upload of Wikipedia offline on their
PC. For security reasons, swiss prisoners have a very restricted access to
internet.
More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was sent
today to the swiss media
Regards,
Charles
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