[Accessibility_sig] OneWebDay - September 22

[Sharron Rush]

 From the organizers of OneWebDay -

OneWebDay, will be held on Saturday, September 22. The New York City event
will be held in Washington Square Park., with a backup indoor location in
case of bad weather.

The idea behind OneWebDay, Sept. 22 each year, is to encourage people to
think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and
visible actions on Sept. 22 that celebrate the positive impact of the
internet on the world. An overview video is here:
<http://youtube.com/watch?v=twDyBfjUXv8>

We need a global constituency that cares about these issues.

It's an Earth Day for the Internet.

Last year, we had the first NYC OneWebDay celebration in Battery Park.
Craig Newmark (of craigslist), Gale Brewer, WIRED's publisher, and Scott
Heiferman (of meetup.com) spoke, among others.

This was just one celebration among many around the world. 2006 OneWebDay
events took place in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Urbana/Champaign, San
Francisco, Charleston, Vienna (Austria), Naples (Italy), Sofia (Bulgaria),
Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest (Hungary), the Philippines, Milan (Italy), Tokyo
(Japan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), and London (England). There was a large
gathering in Second Life. In Canada, CIRA (the .ca registry) committed
significant financial support to promote the OneWebDay celebration in cities
across the country.

There was strong press coverage in Newsweek, BBC online, OhmyNews,
RedHerring, CNET, The Register, and many many blog posts from around the
world.

Following the 2006 event, we have heard from people who want to volunteer to
run events in Syria, Brazil, Iraq, India, Egypt and many other countries.
You can see a map of some of this year's locations at:
<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=113464627897961305399.000435a8c3f
ca92359f9a>

Our chief online goal this year for Sept. 22 is to encourage people to make
their own short videos and post them on blip.tv or youtube tagged
"onewebday2007". Suggested topics:

+ how the web has changed your life

+ how you'd like the web to change the world in the future

+ highlights of what you've seen online the day you make the video

+ your favorite online event ever

+ something you've done online with other people in other countries

We're planning contests and mashups for OneWebDay 2007 involving the videos,
but the first step is to get videos up online. We'll also be encouraging
people to make their videos available through dotSUB.com, so that the world
can translate them.

Read more at: <http://www.onewebday.org>


Daniel A. Shockley
OneWebDay Assistant
dan at onewebday.org
http://www.onewebday.org