[IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

[Sebastian Silva]

2008/12/4 Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>:
>> Perhaps a [[Social Action]] section?
>>
>
> Right now Earth Treasury topics go in the Sugar Labs Wiki in User
> space, at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/*. Any time we
> determine how to turn one of them into a Sugar Activity, that goes in
> the Main namespace. For example, if we can come up with low cost water
> quality sensors, we can organize a sampling trip down one of the
> rivers, and test each sample. That's what they did on the Yukon River,
> to locate pollutant sources between successive sampling points. Until
> then, we have to find laboratories willing to do the analysis of
> pollutants.

This is actually a topic of great interest. Its exactly the kind of
application of distributed intelligence to save the planet I'm
expecting and hoping to emerge from networking.

In line with this, I'm monitoring http://www.globoamazonia.com/ - a
site put by Globo Brasil television network, that aggregates reports
of illegal logging and out of control fires. There is a bias to the
coast, where computers and internet have penetration, but I've
recently spent 6 months in the Peru/Bolivia/Brasil border, and it was
dry season and air was filled with smoke. The situation is really bad
there.

Sebastian

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Sebastian Silva
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