Traversingthe

Online/Offline Gap

Ilyse Na’omi Kazar

For CMC11

December 14, 2011

Photo by j_bary on Flickr

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)

Together we can save the world on the Internet!

illustration by daniel_iversen on Flickr

But, just a minute …

Is it possible we are MISSING something?

Are all these wonderful possibilitiesfor human exchange available to everyone?

And are we hearing from, and learning from everyone?

And is the reach of the Internet truly global?

And is the reach of the Internet truly global?

http://imaginepeacetower.com

And is the reach of the Internet truly global?

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

Being a Kid in the Amazon by somebody_ on Flickr

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

Old Folks, Portland, Oregonby Curtis Cronn on Flickr

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

old woman’s veilby Emilia

Tjernström [Arriving at the horizon] on Flickr

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

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

Malawian farmer with drought tolerant maize crop

by CIMMYT on Flickr

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

This is William Kamkwamba

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

African DrummersBy arichards63 - smile if you missed me on

Flickr

Who is on the other side of The Gap?

Men @ HarvestBy stevewright316 on Flickr

Sure, we have a lot we could teach all these people.

BUT, especially considering……the state of our economy

Laura's house-of-cards tumblesby Random Tony on Flickr

… and the changes in our climate

droughtby IRRI Imageson Flickr

… and our individual isolation

Isolation© 2009, Jude Kazar on Flickr

Sure, we have a lot we could teach all these people.

What could we learn from them?

What plant his mother mashes and applies when insects bite him.

Being a Kid in the Amazon by somebody_ on Flickr

How they stuck togetherthrough thick and thin.

Old Folks, Portland, Oregonby Curtis Cronn on Flickr

The unwritten wisdom passed downthrough a thousand generations of women.

old woman’s veilby Emilia

Tjernström [Arriving at the horizon] on Flickr

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

How your fields can yield cornin a drought.

Malawian farmer with drought tolerant maize crop

by CIMMYT on Flickr

How to electrify your village with windmillsmade from scrap and discarded flip-flops

This is William Kamkwamba

How to communicate acrossdistance and languages.

African DrummersBy arichards63 - smile if you missed me on

Flickr

How to work together, and smile while working together for the common

good.

Men @ HarvestBy stevewright316 on Flickr

So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?

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

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.

So, then, how does humanitytraverse the online/offline gap?

• AND, even better, to promote

real two-way exchange …

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