The Container Project
Palmer's Cross, Clarendon, Jamaica, April/May 2003.
The Container is a project to develop a community computing centre in an ISO container.
The Jamaican-based project aims to 'repatriate technology' by giving people access to information
technologies, and the skills to manipulate them, to serve their own purposes for example,
developing their own digital media.
Paul Mobbs, the geek who has designed systems for both the
CommunityLinux Training Centre and
the new Salvage Server projects,
and worked in Jamaica during April and early May to assist the project with the
financial support of Media Arts
Projects. This provides his feedback from the development of The Container project
in Jamaica.
For more information see The Container web site at:
http://www.container-project.net/
Audio and video from The Container
- "Computers in Cross" the video
A 3min 44sec video that mixes a performance by 'The Weblink Crew'
at the launch of The Container, with video taken during the installation of
the computer systems. Available as a
2.8 megabyte
Real Movie file (download to your hard disk and view locally).
- "Computers in Cross" the soundtrack
The audio from the Weblink Crew's performance, available as a
2.7 megabyte MP3 file.
Picture-Reports from The Container
Note, each of the reports contains around 100 kilobytes of pictures,
so they might take a few minutes to download on slow connections.
- First report,
16th April
Arriving in Jamaica, and the first day at 'The Container'.
- Second report,
17th April
More work on The Container, and the first system is installed.
- Third report,
19th April
Beginning to put the computer systems together.
- Fourth report,
22nd April
Getting somewhere, but users start getting in the way!
- Fifth report,
23rd/24th April
Getting somewhere, but users start getting in the way!
- Sixth report,
25th April
Making progress on installation, and Camille and Mike arrive
- Seventh report,
26th April
Activities in The Container increase
- Eighth report,
27th-29th April
Countdown to the launch almost finished
- Ninth report,
30th April, The Launch
The Container is HERE!
- Final report,
1st to 5th May
The last five days in Jamaica
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