On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Who's attending http://stateofthemap.us at the UN in NYC this weekend? > > Who's most serious about bringing OpenStreetMap's opportunities and rapid > progress into the hands of the world's offline poor -- kids and all, > American and Swahili? Wanna Take This Map Outside, offline and off the > grid, where we all belong/began? >
See you in 8 hours! Please send your phone number if Skype's not possible! > http://Internet-in-a-Box.org and similar efforts have made a gigantic 1st > step: in Ghana and Rwanda I could never have imagined better reviews to our > 2015 deployments begun there in recent months. Many are now changing the > game increasingly for the Bottom BillionS, among many who've literally > never seen a globe before, nevermind a map of their own towns. Both in > OLPC (school) contexts, in libraries, on Nepali hillsides where folks don't > have proper homes, and far beyond --- perspectives (literally) are about to > change. > > But modern phones today contain more than enough gigabytes to display ALL > OpenStreetMap map detail within most countries, and yet they do not yet, > WHY? Where are the Khan Academies and KA Lites of OSM (OpenStreetMap) > bringing new classroom/journalistic rubrics, freeing everyone's "brain > software" to explore and document our own communities in our own languages? > > *Who Will Take The Next Steps?* > *What engineering middleware, distribution vectors, community/economic > models, and final field packagings will get us all there & beyond?* > *Will offline edit-contributions prove impossible, much like with > Wikipedia in Peru, when offline kids edit overly stale > OpenStreetMap/Wikipedia images a year before/later?* > > As such the wider OLPC community is hosting a DESIGN Call to bring forward > ideas across the OpenStreetMap landscape, fertilizing our immediate work > with school server projects like http://schoolserver.org, http://xsce.org, > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e ETC. Ministries of > Education in India elsewhere are watching closely, expressly eager to help > if we can point the way. All giving our "2020 Vision" questions very > practical and immediate "customers" well before 2020, much like Garmin GPS > units fed a wonderful ecosystem of geo-specific "gmapsupp.img" offline map > files over the past decade: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download > > That decade's now done: what IS our framework for the coming decade? > Please join us if you have strategic/partnership ideas towards making > Offline OSM Designs happen, *Thank You !!* > > 10AM New York Time / 2PM UTC > Thursday, June 11th > RSVP with your Skype username, if we are more than 15-20 we'll use an > industrial conference call system instead! > > CONCLUSION: Could OpenStreetMap be the very ultimate in Constructionist > Learning Projects, replacing OLPC in coming years, on a quickly > shrinking/endangered but still green-in-parts planet? Regardless, how to > build the OLPC Movement's offline/civic learning successes, consciously > learning from its community infrastructural mistakes? Nick Doiron ( > http://mapmeld.com) and Anish Mangal ( > https://in.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal) who've spent years thinking about > this topic will lead the discussion, agenda is entirely yours! OPTIONAL: > submit agenda items in advance right here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg > > *< forward invitation to Twitter/wherever as appropriate >* > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >
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