Shutdown Day

Shutdown Day is a day of action in which the people should try to get along long a day without computer. The aim of this action is to save energy and to move people to more often occur back in touch with friends or nature.

Objectives

The Shutdown Day as a global Internet experiment is to encourage people to think about how their lives have been changed by the computer and through the Internet in recent years, and whether beautiful or more important things in life have been neglected by the more frequent use.

The purpose of this day of action is to shut down the computer for one day a year ( engl. to shutdown ) to other activities - like, for example, meet friends or play sports - and to devote to remember that in addition to the yet another computer are in life.

History

2007

The day of action was launched in 2007 to life, realized as an initiator Denis Bystrov that he spent too much time on the computer and wanted to spend more time with his family. With two friends, Michael Taylor and David Bridle, Bystrov said a website to life, on which he presented his thoughts and visitors to the site challenged:

" Do you think you get along for 24 hours without a computer, and if so, would you vouch for that? "

What started as a simple question, even after a short time attracted tens of thousands of users:

• The site has been called in the first month of the campaign more than 1.6 million copies.
• More than 65,000 people took part in the first Shutdown Day 2007, by 24 hours a turn-on there not their computer.
• The Shutdown Day promotional film on YouTube has been viewed 1.1 million times within a short time.
• 450,000 registered users on the website.
• The idea of ​​Shutdown Days was known in more than 200,000 media (Internet forums, TV interviews, etc.).

In the same year Bystrov was thinking about the future and the organization of further Shutdown Days. Finally, he and another friend, Ashutosh Rajekar - who was also addicted to technology - a non-profit organization in Quebec.

2008

The following Shutdown Day was held on 3 May 2008. Two days before the said date news agency reported Reuters on the action and campaigned for the elimination of domestic PCs. The participants of the previous year were planning to go to parks to engage the public and to rid the city of garbage, or to camp.

2009

Shutdown Day was, as previously announced on the website - on 2 May 2009. The campaign itself ran from 1 March to 2 May 2009. Henceforth reports on Fox News, CNN and in the Washington Post have also increasingly been published. This year, 55,000 people wanted to take part in the action, and therefore concurred on the website for "Yes, I can do it ' - " Yes, I 'll do it. "

• Action
• Computer