I think in some situations Kiwix http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page can be a really good option. This might be one of them.
Alternatively, is Wikipedia Zero active in countries such as Yemen, Syria and Libya? If so, perhaps it is worth co-ordinating with some disaster relief NGOs such as MSF, Red Cross and Oxfam?
Teemu, thanks for raising this important issue.
Steve
On 8 September 2015 at 10:46, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi 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".
- TeemuPS. In general I am against offline-Wikipedia but exceptional situations need exceptional solutions.
On 8.9.2015, at 10.13, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com 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-h...
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com
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%27atri_Refugee_C...
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 teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi:
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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