Our Stories™ is a new project that encourages people to interview friends and loved ones, and to share these oral histories with others. Founding partners include UNICEF, One Laptop per Child, and Google. The idea is to create, share, and grow a global collection of personal stories collected through recorded audio interviews.
The project’s founders plan to gather stories from around the world because:
we believe that everyone will discover joy and inspiration in these many and varied voices, words, and lives.
Currently visitors can’t upload their own stories directly to the Our Stories site, but the plan is to have systems in place in the future to allow all people to upload their own audio interviews to share.
Visitors can listen to the current collection of stories on the Find a Story page.
What I like — since I love collecting story prompts — is the interview guides (these seem actually to be from StoryCorps) for “capturing the stories and lives of those around you.”