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The Eco-mUNITY Kiosk

This project blends the leading edge of converging trends and technologies into a single, tangible object. This object is the cornerstone for community collaboration and organization as it has never happened before. By bringing community citizens together to collaborate locally and non-locally, citizens can produce virtual art, vote on community issues, teach classes, and exercise while generating power for the electronic devices. By monitoring social and technological trends, e-c-o is putting the tools of the future into the hands of citizens today, preparing them for tomorrow.

Our family is growing

We are excited to announce that we have a new addition to the Eco-mUNITY family of kiosks. This latest addition increases the number of kiosks to three: Super Robot, Sidekick Robot and the Bright Neighbor Kiosk, on which a new touch screen interface leads directly to the Bright Neighbor site while a new video screen streams Bright Neighbor TV. If you are interested in promotion through Eco-mUNITY, contact us. In 2010 a fourth robotic kiosk will join the family. Rob bot the mobile robot will be making a citizen assisted journey accross all 20 of the neighborhoods that make up the SE Uplift Neighborhood Coalition as he travels from one Neighborhood Association meeting to another. Along the way he will attempt to get more residents involved with their own neighborhood.

Eco-mUNITY Vitality

The livability that comes from a thriving community base also instills a vitality at the neighborhood level. When technology is used to bring people together for education, communication, collaboration, and fun, you are able to get informed and involved at a hyperlocal level. Eco-mUNITY kiosks connect you with local neighborhood associations, businesses, community organizations, and your neighbors through the interactive touchscreen. Invite an Eco-mUNITY kiosk to YOUR neighborhood today!

Eco-mUNITY Livability

By providing public places for art, education, collaboration, and community participation, the stake citizens have in their community is increased. When we see others investing in the community, and feel our quality of life increased, we start to buy in to the idea of community stewardship. The result of that buy in is that it empowers a community to organize with open access to tools designed to increase input at local and city levels. This is the vision that Eco-mUNITY holds when considering content, partnerships, and projects. Let us know if you have similar goals. Perhaps we can work together!

Eco-mUNITY Safety

As a Neighborhood Emergency Team member, Dwayne has been trained, certified, is currently on call in the case of a catastophic occurance that impacts Portland's neighborhoods, and is requiring all Empowering Community Organizers to have at least basic First Aid training. Cyd Manro also has experience with community outreach, is trained at conflict resolution, project managment, and managing change. With Eco-mUNITY kiosks providing such a visible and time intensive presence at the street level, we can utilize direct and unconventional outreach methods to more greatly impact the communities we live in, and improve safety in communities. The following is a short list of ROBOT/Kiosk safety related equipment and services: Community web cam (web video monitored safe zone), Information repository (first aid, evacuation routes, etc.), Content filtering, Bright Neighbor secure exchange, Free phone calls (non emergency), Emergency services contact links, N.O.A.A. radio with Emergency Alert System. This system remains idle until an emergency alert is broadcast by EAS. In 1996 EAS replaced the Emergency Broadcasting System. In case of an emergency, alerts are sent out by the EAS not just to broadcast media but also to cable television, satellites, pagers, Direct Broadcast Satellite, High Definition Television, Video Dial Tone, and the Eco-mUNITY Kiosk.

Eco-mUNITY Social Diversity

Through amplifying more voices in the community, the colorful diversity embedded in the stories, visions, and concerns of more residents can be more readily heard. By providing easily accessible means for underrepresented members of the community to voice their ideas and concerns, the breadth of involvement will be increasingly diverse. Also, through the community outreach effort, those who may not be likely to seek out others of a socially different background may come into contact and find common ground or at least better understand one another. You can be connected to the community with which you identify by location and by interest. You are invited to help tell your community story - celebrating with your neighbors the diverse cultural history, present, and future of your neighborhood. We can amplify your voice through our community television shows, locally oriented content on our website, or featured content on our kiosks!

Eco-mUNITY Home Page

Beginning in 2010, the Eco-mUNITY family of Robots will tour neighborhoods in Portland, OR

Super Robot is a member of the family of Eco-mUNITY kiosks touring neighborhoods in Portland, OR. Through these kiosks, citizens may interact with city and neighborhood organizations, connect with local people and community resources, or simply get exercize generating people power with a pull cord or bicycle generator! They are equipped with safety features such as security webcams, N. O. A. A. radios, and can power personal electronics with the stored people power. Invite one of the Eco-mUNITY kiosks to your neighborhood today!

This next video is played in public on the Bright Neighbor Kiosk as an introduction to the Bright Neighbor site. It highlights Bright Neighbor TV and delivers information to users about how to use the kiosk. This is Part 1 of 5. To view the entire show, go to the Eco-mUNITY Kiosk Project page, the EcoTV page, or Eco-mUNITY’s YouTube page.

Eco-mUNITY is working to Empower Community Organization at the Neighborhood Level

Hello, we are the founders of Eco-mUNITY, an Empowering Community Organization, and we are empowering Community Organizers. I am Dwayne Beals and I play the part of a.citizen. Thank you, Thank you!

I am Cyd Manro and I play the part of Democracy Catalyst. Oh, and I am NOT from the future.

We wonder what part you might play in your Eco-mUNITY? Right now, we are working to empower community organization! We are on the cusp of a revolutionary shift in how citizens communicate and collaborate. Resources are becoming free and readily available, and pieces of this revolution have already begun coming together.

Unfortunately, single provider, top-down models are threatening citizens’ ability to use this technology to creatively connect and collaborate. So, Eco-mUNITY is building a grass-roots mesh network and collaborative metaverse to empower community organization.

We will do this by engaging in community outreach through events and by bringing an Eco-mUNITY Kiosk to your community, helping to better connect you to your Neighborhood Association, to your local resources, and to one another. Want to know more? Contact us today!

Eco-mUNITY facilitates community education

Eco-mUNITY is developing an increasingly education-centered focus. By incorporating the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, interactive education through innovative laptops connected through a mesh network. OLPC has recently released the software for the XS, which is the school server. This provides added functionality to the OLPC laptops, also called XOs.

Eco-mUNITY is using OLPC laptops in many of their school-centered kiosks. One of the most exciting features of the OLPC laptop is the mesh networking capability. For a demonstration of a mesh network, click on the picture to the left. Mesh networking allows enhanced collaboration with easy sharing of content, and simultaneous interaction on documents, programming projects, or even real time music creation by several people at once.

By partnering with local schools and organizations, Eco-mUNITY brings educational content to community events and to be displayed on the kiosk via EcoTV3.

An interactive metaverse for community collaboration - Thank you for participating

The Eco-mUNITY Kiosk

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