OneWebDay is YOUR Day. Tell us what you have planned!
September 15th, 2009 | by onewebday | Published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments
OneWebDay, September 22, 2009, is upon us!
On our new home page, we have provided lots of ideas for this you can do to join our global network of volunteers in celebrating, educating, and activating communities, online and off, to build a society where the Web works for everyone.
You can take any of these actions, you can take them all. But most importantly, make OneWebDay your own. Organizations and individuals are coming up with great ways to celebrate OneWebDay.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has posted a “A Call to Defense and Celebration of the Online Commonwealth,” and you can sign it.
The Mozilla Foundation, in addition to organizing Mozilla Service Week, and helping to raise awareness and funds for OneWebDay, is hosting a OneWebDay Poster Contest! Professional and hobbyist designers alike should check it out.
In Washington, DC, KG Yoga is providing a free OneWebDay Yoga class on September 22.
What matters most about the Web is the network of people that it empowers. We created OneWebDay to unleash your creativity so that together we can all find ways to bring more people online, give them the knowledge they need to be empowered users, and stand together as a community that celebrates the Web and will work to see it reach its fullest potential as a force for enhancing everyone’s lives.
Please use the comment section below to post your actions and ideas for OneWebDay 2009.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:03 am (#)
I don’t know if you guys have heard of Kiva.org, but it’s a great site where people from 1st world countries can send micro loans to entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries to help them develop their businesses. It could be anything from a village farm that needs new grain, or a small family owned clothing store. Please check the link below for one of the people I’ve lent a mere 25$ to, along with others, and made a difference in the lives of people hundreds of miles away.
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=101004
Odile Ndundu (above link) lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and requested a loan for a charcoal business. She successfully started her business and increased her capitol, and then paid back the loan 100%. Now I can send that 25$ to another person who needs help somewhere else around the world.
Kiva.org rocks! Check ‘em out!
September 21st, 2009 at 5:34 am (#)
Help create the One Web Day Moosical
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 am (#)
Anglo American School and Linux center celebrate One Web Day as an important day for advancement o societies, technology, science and education. Indeed, freedom of access to information and knowledge is crucial for
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm (#)
We have woken to One Web Day to find wind gusts exceeding 100 kph and dust storms of such intensity that visibility throughout much of eastern Australia is reduced to metres… Widespread damage through falling trees, power lines and lost roofing material; major airports and tunnels are closed, Internet connectivity and electricity has been lost to tens-of-thousands of homes. Many people are suffering respiratory problems with increased fatalities expected of the elderly and weak.
Perhaps One Web Day could be a token of the fragility of the web… of how so often, when we need it most, it fails to provide essential communications to people in need. It’s times like this that people appreciate the simplicity of radio.