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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