How fantastic, Adam. May more visibility be close behind; this is more essential than ever. S
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:06 AM Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/1177590377>Oct 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 ~* > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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