Our Stories
A recording activity and a project. The activity source can be found on dev and in an svn repository.
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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)
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Related Projects
The Museum of the Person: an International Network of Life Stories
Because one story can change the way you see the world
The Museum of the Person’s international network links individuals and groups through authoring and sharing life stories. Museums of the Person are located in Brazil, Portugal, the USA, and Canada.
We believe that the world will be a better place if we affirm the universal value of the individual human life story and the necessity for a global community of tellers and listeners.
OUR VALUES
The members of the international network believe that:
• Every life story has value and is part of social memory;
• Every person plays a role as an agent of social change;
• Life stories lead to a better understanding between peoples and cultures.
OUR MISSION
Contribute to make every person’s life story valued by the society
OUR VISION
A more just and democratic world built on the memory of persons from all segments of society
OUR CHALLENGES
Use
To define the best uses of the collection of stories so as to promote action towards understanding, education, positive public policies, community building and social justice.
Means
To create infrastructural, technological and methodological solutions that allow life stories to be collected and used in the most varied of actions by the most varied of groups, irrespective of all forms of difference.
Network
To consolidate and continuously expand the global network and trigger new initiatives while widening the scope of work in each country.
Local to Global
To construct an open and active network of life tellers/listeners on the web and in communities all over the planet.
WHAT IS A MUSEUM OF THE PERSON?
The Museums of the Person are virtual museums that collect, preserve and share life stories for social change. To be a Museum of the Person is to be locally responsible for the democratization of social memory and for the dissemination of the local life stories in a global level.
The Museums of the Person are co-responsible for the network collaboration.
They share:
• Mission, vision, principles;
• Common visual identity;
• Common methodology.
OUR EXPECTATION
New Members We expect to expand the network, by creating new Museums of the Person. They will participate as contributing members of the growing network through the sharing of information, support, resources and ideas.
Partners We invite interested individuals, groups, communities, organizations and governmental sectors to support our network.
MUSEUM OF THE PERSON AND THE OUR STORIES PROJECT
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
| Interview | |
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| Status: | active interface dev |
| Version: | 1 |
| Base: | No |
| Source: | svn (guest/guest) |
| l10n: | missing |
| Contributors | |
| John Huang, Cyrus Katrak, Chuck Sievert | |
Group: Local stories
Group coordinator: Stephen Cho (see also local history projects in Nigeria, Brasil)
Curator(s): Lauren Klein
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