BBC Podcast: how to put THE internet in a box ! - Offline-l

20 Oct 2020


      Thanks especially to Benjamin Bach in Denmark who made this happen, by
referring the BBC's "People Fixing the World" program to me and others
earlier this summer.  Yes this podcast is only 23min, but it took many
months of hard work to pull together!
Huge Thank You to Anish Mangal whose Internet-in-a-Box community action in
remote Northern India truly brought this podcast to life — and to everyone
who pulled together, so that the global public rich and poor listen up —
and wake up to all these many amazing "Offline Internet" initiatives...
All thanks to BBC producer Tim Colls himself, who courageously went far
beyond the usual Technology Solutionism — carefully addressing "Educational
Imperialism" and the ethics of ignoring grassroots community voices — *and
what everyone of us CAN in fact do about this:*
How to put the internet in a box
People Fixing the World https://pod.link/1177590377Oct 19, 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv1s (23min)
*Thanks to Everyone catalyzing these grassroots learning hubs of all kind,
in your own country AND in your own culture!*
In that spirit (how can we *each* help, everyone in *their* our way)
anybody with even the most basic Linux skills should consider trying
out an Internet-in-a-Box
7.2 https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.2-Release-Notes pre-release
to craft their very own "community learning hotspot."  Thereby seeding
exactly such Sneakernet-of-Alexandria "Burnings for Learnings" peoples
networks, in any rural or impoverished community that you can find, that
deserves its own aspirational tools...
- What are the most humane Sneakernets-of-Alexandria currently being
   built today, around this planet?
   - How should these distant human networks in health clinics / schools
   / prisons / libraries (and in your own home!) tangibly learn from each
   other, co-curating to Pay It Forward helping others?
*None of us have all the answers in 2020!  But Internet-in-a-Box
http://internet-in-a-box.org/ is one key piece of this puzzle
and installable on most any Raspberry Pi or PC http://download.iiab.io/,
if you too can enable kids/communities and civic networks in your part of
the world.  So do write us
http://internet-in-a-box.org/pages/contributing.html if you have any
questions about how best to make this possible, so we help each you (and
help each other!) materially help others ~*