Traversing the Online/Offline Gap
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Traversing the Online/Offline Gap Ilyse Na’omi Kazar For CMC11 December 14, 2011
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The gap between online and offline communities is multi-dimensional. It is not only about economic status. It is generated within the differences in culture, geographic location, language, age bracket, literacy, resource availability, and, yes, economic status. It is generated between what is happening in community rooms, church basements, barber shops, nail salons, youth drop-in centers, and the buzz on social networks and virtual collaboration spaces. It happens in the space between the Amazonian medicine man and a nurse living in Canton, Ohio. It exists in the empty space between an Aboriginal father teaching his son their tribe's portion of the Songlines, and downloading the latest mp3.What are we, the connected, missing out on? What voices are we not hearing? What wisdom are we losing? How do we traverse the gap?
Transcript of Traversing the Online/Offline Gap
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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