Traversing the Online/Offline Gap
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Traversingthe
Online/Offline Gap
Ilyse Na’omi Kazar
For CMC11
December 14, 2011
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Photo by j_bary on Flickr
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The Internet is a Wonderful Placewhere together we …
Connect with…• Friends (old and new) and family• Communities and colleagues
Develop ideas by…• Brainstorming• Debating & Arguing
Learn from…• Each other• History
and SHARE INFORMATION
Brain illustration by Betsian Wolves photo by Laenulfean
How to… by bob ostrom studio(all on Flickr)
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Together we can save the world on the Internet!
illustration by daniel_iversen on Flickr
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But, just a minute …
Is it possible we are MISSING something?
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Are all these wonderful possibilitiesfor human exchange available to everyone?
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And are we hearing from, and learning from everyone?
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And is the reach of the Internet truly global?
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And is the reach of the Internet truly global?
http://imaginepeacetower.com
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And is the reach of the Internet truly global?
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
Being a Kid in the Amazon by somebody_ on Flickr
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
Old Folks, Portland, Oregonby Curtis Cronn on Flickr
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
old woman’s veilby Emilia
Tjernström [Arriving at the horizon] on Flickr
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
homeless on 4th St 1st Ave, © 2011 ilyse na’omi kazarblogged at http://inkback.blogspot.com/2011/07/multi-generational-
homelessness.html
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
Malawian farmer with drought tolerant maize crop
by CIMMYT on Flickr
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
This is William Kamkwamba
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
African DrummersBy arichards63 - smile if you missed me on
Flickr
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Who is on the other side of The Gap?
Men @ HarvestBy stevewright316 on Flickr
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Sure, we have a lot we could teach all these people.
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BUT, especially considering……the state of our economy
Laura's house-of-cards tumblesby Random Tony on Flickr
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… and the changes in our climate
droughtby IRRI Imageson Flickr
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… and our individual isolation
Isolation© 2009, Jude Kazar on Flickr
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Sure, we have a lot we could teach all these people.
What could we learn from them?
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What plant his mother mashes and applies when insects bite him.
Being a Kid in the Amazon by somebody_ on Flickr
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How they stuck togetherthrough thick and thin.
Old Folks, Portland, Oregonby Curtis Cronn on Flickr
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The unwritten wisdom passed downthrough a thousand generations of women.
old woman’s veilby Emilia
Tjernström [Arriving at the horizon] on Flickr
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What you really need (and what you don’t)to survive.
homeless on 4th St 1st Ave, © 2011 ilyse na’omi kazarblogged at http://inkback.blogspot.com/2011/07/multi-generational-
homelessness.html
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How your fields can yield cornin a drought.
Malawian farmer with drought tolerant maize crop
by CIMMYT on Flickr
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How to electrify your village with windmillsmade from scrap and discarded flip-flops
This is William Kamkwamba
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How to communicate acrossdistance and languages.
African DrummersBy arichards63 - smile if you missed me on
Flickr
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How to work together, and smile while working together for the common
good.
Men @ HarvestBy stevewright316 on Flickr
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So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?
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So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?
• Blog and photograph the lives of
the people you meet on your travels
• Listen to, support or even start up
community-based radio stations.
• Use and promote the use of
phone/text-based communications
• Attend community events, town
meetings,
county fairs, grange meetings, fireside
councils
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So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?
• Get computers, where appropriate, into
the hands of digital have-nots.
• Support and invest in telecommunications
improvements in the developing world
• Learn another language.
• Study tribal drumming. Make a painting.
Create a costume. Tell the stories your
grandparents told you.
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So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?
• AND, even better, to promote
real two-way exchange …
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
Majora Carter
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
Bunker Roy
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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Become an Internet Ambassador, like...
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The Internet is a Wonderful Place.So is the rest of the world.
Photo by j_bary on Flickr
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The Internet is a Wonderful Place.So is the rest of the world.
Be a pioneer. Explore the gap.