This one came to me through a colleague. Google, Unicef and OLPC have got together to bring the small stories of the world through a project called Our Stories. From the site:
The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. We’re providing resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting with children in developing countries who are using One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computers or those who are working with UNICEF radio producers to record and share interviews. Children are asked to record the stories of elders, family members, and friends. You can listen to our growing collection of global voices on this site, which includes stories from Brazil’s Museum of the Person and stories from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Pakistan (through UNICEF). Soon, stories from other countries will also be available for listening here. And in the future, we’ll make it possible for people of all ages around the world to add their content to the Our Stories site.
This is a great initiative to help preserve some of the most valuable out there – the tacit information and the stories of our elder generations. Google seems to be back on it’s “no evil” path and serving it’s own goal of gathering and storing all the world’s information.
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