Our Stories

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Our Stories Active GUI development .xo Bundle – OurStories-1.xo sources in projects/ourstories Localization .POT file NEEDED John Huang, Cyrus Katrak, Chuck Sievert see more templates or propose new

About

Our Stories is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and Story Corps to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks.

The Story Corps team are advising on modifications to their recommended process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have 1 million stories, and to have a third of all XO owners to have recorded a story, by the end of the first year.

Google engineers are starting to work on the project as of late May, and a draft proposal outlines six initial countries [Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia] and interface sketches.

Questions to answer include:

• how to get recording tools to children across the country
• how to develop localized activities around interviewing and recording others, and around reading the stories of others
• how to spread the word; introducing children, parents, and other teachers to the ideas behind the project and ways to upload and share recorded stories; building networks of Our Stories participants and broadcasters; providing posters about the project to telecenters and radio stations

Quick Links

• Our Stories Press Release
• Google "Tech Talk" about Our Stories (video)

Country Pages

• Our Stories Nigeria
• Our Stories Brasil
• Our Stories Uruguay

Related Projects

Museum of the Person

The Museum of the Person is a museum in Brasil which focuses among other things on gathering oral and video histories. They have a recording booth at their HQ that anyone can come and use any day of the week, and are contributing some of their existing recorded stories to the Our Stories project. They occasionally set up videobooths in other parts of the country as well.

Our Stories Activity

Group: Local stories

Group coordinator: Stephen Cho (see also local history projects in Nigeria, Brasil)

Curator(s): Lauren Klein

Allottable size:

Activity .xo Distribution

• work-in-progress (10/23/2007) available here: File:OurStories-1.xo (beta)

Source Availability

• Git - maintained by John Huang
• Svn (guest/guest) - maintained by Cyrus Katrak - probably not up-to-date?

Screenshot

work in progress screenshot (10/23/2007)

Journal-ish interface. use Record tab to access recording toolbar. the listview shows recorded stories; click on the ear-icon to listen to story.

See also

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgFgY9xkks4 Our Stories Project: OLPC, UNICEF, Google, StoryCorps