Good idea. I watched a report on TV where they said some refugees have been waiting for years for processing. It would be nice for them to be able to use and maybe contribute to Wikipedia while they are waiting. Maybe we should set up edit-a-thons and wikiclasses about life in Europe and the politics of the crisis, for the refugees and the Europeans both!
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi wrote:
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
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