[p2p-research] New website about active citizenship and other issues more or less close to P2P

[Ryan Lanham]

This looks a lot like a mobile phone-sort of initiative.  M-learning is
something I follow.  It hasn't made much progress, but your initiative seems
very suited to useful deployment on cell phones in Africa, the Caribbean,
etc.  Here in the Cayman Islands we have only about 20% of houses with
access to a computer.  Everyone (everyone over 14) has a cell phone.  I've
often contemplated what to "tell" them in 400-500 words a day.  Most don't
read the papers or the Internet.  Well over 75% of the world has yet to read
their first bit of Internet news.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:42 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> Greetings, everybody.
>
> I have just started a new bilingual website aimed to present certain
> concepts and news to the general public, in SMALL chunks (1/2 printed
> pages, top) and in the SIMPLEST possible language. It doesn't overlap
> at all with most of the excellent websites and articles usually
> mentioned on lists like this, for the simple reason that those are
> almost always written for, or read by, people who already deeply care
> and/or have or want to acquire a solid background on certain themes.
>
> I, instead, want to try to reach other people, those who don't
> normally read more than 4/500 words in one day or have no interest for
> technology, that still only get all news from mainstream TV stations
> and maybe don't even use a computer, or are convinced that the
> Internet is some weird Facebook plugin.
>
> To explain what I mean, the copyright page (still to be translated in
> English) says "no online copies of anything on this website are
> permitted (*), but you are encouraged/requested to print as many
> copies you want of single pages, to hand them out as brochures to all
> your friends, relative, coworkers... because it's time to reach those
> who can't be convinced with a link found into an email, because they
> haven't email or only check it once a month"
>
> Right now, the website has only a few articles, only in Italian, but
> from next week it will start getting regular updates. You can read the
> reason I'm telling you this on this list at
> http://stop.zona-m.net/about
>
> I'm sure you can think of many things discussed here that should be
> mentioned in (at least) the "LivingWorld" and "Active Citizens"
> sections. That's why I'm writing: feel encouraged in any moment to
> signal here or privately possible topics, links to similar websites
> (so I don't redo something already existing), remembering that the
> most interesting ones for the Stop! would be things that could be done
> by, or be interesting for, even somebody who's living an ordinary life
> into a flat in some big city. Or thought in their children's schools.
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Marco
>
> (*) the reasons will be clear in that page, as soon as I get around to
> translate it.
>
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