Our Stories
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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
Related Projects
Museum of the Person
They run a "Local stories" project throughout Brasil. They have groups in Brasil, the US, and Portugal. There are other groups that use this methodology to develop local oral history projects.
Stories from the MP projects will be part of Our Stories; they want to develop a platform that will connect the net of the MP projects and other organizations which want audio and video and text stories to OS and other online visualizations.
- August : many questions from them about 'methodology and training and implementation in schools'
Activity Information
Group: Local stories
Group coordinator: Stephen Cho (see also local history projects in Nigeria, Brasil)
Curator(s): Lauren Klein
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