When you buy a new flash drive, don't hurry to throw the old one away. You may not know the old flash drive, which is valueless for you, could be a good medium to help us smuggle outside information and knowledge into the North Korea. Let’s all contribute to the “Flash Drives For Freedom” movement.
With such advanced technology, information is spreading around the world in various forms (some even exceed our expectations). You can hardly believe that information obstruction is a very serious problem in North Korea. That explains why the “donate flash drives for freedom activity” is reasonable, though it seems crazy.
Background Reasons for “Flash Drives For Freedom”
The government of North Korea says no to all foreign media and it even prohibits freedom of speech. The tightly controlled state propaganda is all the North Korea citizens can read in the newspapers, hear on the radio or watch on the TVs. It is no exaggeration to say that people of North Korea are isolated from the outside world.
Recently, after noticing the increasing needs of connecting North Korea citizens to the outside world, the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, collaborated with USB Memory Direct and Forum 280, launched the Flash Drives for Freedom activity.
It’s hard to believe that there are still countries which are so secluded, even in the age of Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google drive. But this is real; your old or discarded flash drives could be of so much use to North Korea people.
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Details of “Flash Drives For Freedom”
In a society without internet or independent media, and where the government maintains absolute control over information, these little pieces of plastic filled with films, books, and other content are windows into the outside world. Some North Koreans have escaped their country’s dictatorship and found freedom in South Korea – these refugees are also known as defectors. There they have established civil society groups dedicated to sending information back to others.– says the Flash Drives for Freedom website
How the Donation Works
- Donate a USB drive: you can donate your USB drives or crash (for buying USB drives) to activity locations.
- Prepare the USB drives for people: erase the USB drives and fill them with movies, e-books, TV shows, and Wikipedia articles, in order to inspire citizens to disbelieve Kim Jong-Un’s propaganda.
- Smuggle the drives into North Korea: a healthy black market is responsible for distributing these donated drives throughout North Korea. Make sure that the majority of citizens can read USB drives on different devices.
This is going to help free the North Korea citizens’ minds from Jong-Un’s propaganda machine. Though the appearance is comical, the project is actually serious – it aims at addressing a serious issue and realizing the freedom of information, which is believed to be a fundamental right in any country.
Achievements
- 125,000 USB drives donated and pledged.
- 3 million North Koreans reached by end of 2018.
- 50 million hours of reading material disseminated by end of 2018.
- 1 million hours of footage smuggled by end of 2018.
- $ 6.4 million value of free media coverage.
- 571 million media impressions.
The whole activity is really serious and important; it’s definitely a key to unlock a new world for all North Korean citizens.
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