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International Internet-Free Day |
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www.DoBe.org, the non-profit website for participatory events in every city in the world, promotes the last Sunday of January as International Internet-Free Day, a day for doing and being out in the real world.
DoBe.org proposes:
(1) A Dice Sunday, as in a watered-down version of Luke Reinhart’s Diceman novel. You write down half a dozen unusual or creative or challenging real world things your small group could do on the day, number these options from 1 to 6, then throw the dice, accepting a commitment to do whichever option the dice chooses.
(2) The DoBe.org London website contains a number of more sober examples of the kind of real world activities small groups could organise, ranging from country walks and dancing to writing groups and discussion salons – ie any group activity that involves more than just passively consuming, watching or listening.
(3) Have a real chat instead of a virtual chat room. Interact in real time with real live people! Be your own Home Page.
(4) By all means use e-mail and the Internet in advance to arrange real world participatory events for January 27th 2002 but then turn off the computer for that day.
And if you need fellow participants for the events you come up with, you can advertise them for free in advance on DoBe.org. Afterwards, please send DoBe an e-mail describing how the day went for you – such stories will be an encouragement for Do Be day participants in future years.
“It’s not hypocritical to be using a website to tempt people away from the web,” say the DoBe.org crew, “It’s a matter of reclaiming the web, using it for a different message. The Internet did not start off as a vehicle for social isolation and damaged eyesight. That is what big business has done with it. It began as a medium for communication between researchers, a quick and simple way of exchanging information.
“But it’s so easy nowadays to get addicted to a half life in a virtual world, and to lose touch with your family, friends and neighbours. Yet we’re creatures evolved from a tribal past and an annual Internet-Free Day on the fourth Sunday in January is a recognition of our need for contacts out in the real world. E-mail and the Internet are just not enough.”
DoBe.org’s slogan for the day is:
“Log Out! Get Out! Get a Life! The real world needs you!”
• For more on the international aspects of the day, see www.internet-free-day.org
• For a London event that took place on the first International Internet-Free Day in 2001 see the epic parks walk discussion salon at: http://www.dobe.org/events/641.html (in the London ‘Social’ category)
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