Notre bien-aimée Présidente Marie-Anne Delahaut nous communique: “OneWebDay - Voici une activité intéressante proposée par l’ISOC pour le 22 septembre : l’ISOC Wallonie pourrait y participer en fonction des activités de ses membres, à mobiliser dans le cadre des Fêtes de Wallonie ?”
OneWebDay: One Web. One World. One Wish.
The first OneWebDay took place on Sept. 22, 2006. OneWebDay is an annual global celebration of the collaborative, participatory nature of the web, scheduled for Sept. 22 each year. The idea behind OneWebDay is to make visible the global constituency that cares about the future of the web. Promotional but homespun video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDyBfjUXv8
There are lots of ways to get involved. Be a local organizer of OneWebDay events — start having brainstorming meetings.
Sample project ideas:
- Adopt an assisted-living center, or a local school, and work with them on access/learning projects that can culminate in September.
- Find people around the world who would like to work on some kind of artistic online project with you — an enormous collage, an emergent symphony, whatever.
- A collection of oral histories — how the web changed my life; how I found my job online; how I found friends online; what the web means to me; how I work online
- Teach your grandmother/grandfather to blog; teach the mayor to blog
- Wire a town, or create a wireless hotspot
- Put your digital pictures online; make a website for your club, church, school.
- Make an entry for your neighborhood in Wikipedia.
- Make an entry about Sustainable Community Action, in your neighbourhood, town etc, or what it would take to make it a better place to live, in the Sustainable Community Action wiki
- Call or IM five strangers and wish them well.
- Host a party to celebrate your online friends.
- Open your home wifi to your neighbors.
- Form a committee in your church or other meeting place to help children in poor homes get consistent phone service, a computer and internet access.
- Find out the email addresses of your neighbors and start a neighborhood mailing list
- Party-goers: Get in touch with other people from an online community that you belong to and organize a multi-timezone 24 hour street party across the planet linked by live streaming video.
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Message: The web has changed the world in the last ten years; it’s helped families keep in touch, helped people find jobs, brought news close to home, and on and on. Because the web is made of people, it’s up to us to protect and defend it — and not take it for granted. The idea behind OneWebDay is to have an Earth Day for the internet.
OneWebDay physical events: In 2006, there were events in NYC (Craig Newmark, Scott Heiferman, Drew Schutte, Gale Brewer, at a wireless hotspot), Austin, Boston, Chicago, Urbana/Champaign, San Francisco, Charleston, Vienna (Austria), Naples (Italy), Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest (Hungary), Milan (Italy), Tokyo (Japan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), and London (England). There was a large gathering in Second Life. In Canada, CIRA (the .ca registry) committed significant financial support to promote the OneWebDay celebration in cities across the country.
There was strong press coverage in Newsweek, BBC online, OhmyNews, RedHerring, CNET, The Register, and many many blog posts from around the world.
Following the 2006 event, we have heard from people who want to volunteer to run events in Syria, Brazil, Iraq, India, Egypt and many other countries of the world.
For 2007, with the help of the Internet Society we plan to expand the list of cities substantially and make sure each city can see what the others are doing. We have no corporate funding and are relying on donations in kind (and decentralized activities).
We are partnering with the Internet Archive to encourage people to upload videos and other content (the “best of the web”) in the weeks before Sept. 22. We’d like to find ways that that content could be made as visible as possible. We’re also interested in getting the word out about OneWebDay around the world.
Organization: OneWebDay, Inc. is a U.S. nonprofit (501(c)(3)) company. It has a Board made up of online luminaries (Doc Searls, David Weinberger, David Isenberg, Mary Hodder), business people (Kaarli Tasso, David Johnson, Rick Whitt), a NYC PR person (Renee Edelman, Edelman), a key researcher (Gregg Vesonder, AT&T), and a former state AG (Jim Tierney, Maine). Its president is Susan Crawford, a professor at Cardozo Law School in NYC. She is committed to working on this holiday for the next 10 years.
There is a web site (http://onewebday.org) which is a clearinghouse for OneWebDay online projects and news. Flickr pictures and posts tagged OneWebDay can be seen on the site, which has a blog and a wiki aimed at encouraging participation.
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Contact:
Susan Crawford
OneWebDay, Inc.
212.790.0493
scrawford@scrawford.net
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