Good to hear from you Genie I will let you know my thoughts pretty soon. Regards
*Raphael Berchie* Marketing Manager Farm Fresh Dairies <http://www.bioplasticsghana.com> Wikimedian <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/> P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to hear from you, Gennie. > > And welcome to Ghana. I hope you enjoy your stay. > > Concerning the questions you raised: > What are their greatest benefits, and biggest problems? > > *Internet.org* > Benefits: > > - I see no benefit with that thing. Its to most extent, a devil in > disguise. > > Problems: > > - It doesn't even work for PCs. Many using mobile devices doesn't > totally mean the whole world has gone mobile compulsorily. > - It doesn't play well with Wikipedia, especially when it comes to > editing. Other websites aside Wikipedia loaded by the internet.org is > heavily stripped down. > - Pages requested by users go through a proxy server, and who knows > what is stored or looked at or tracked by whatever the proxy server is. > > *Wikipedia*: > Benefits. > > - Reading/Editing works the same and seamless > - viewing on PC/Mobile allowed, > - communication with Wikipedia server is a one-on-one affair, without > any middle-proxy-server things. > - Pages aren't stripped down, What you request is what you get! > > > Problem: > > - I won't say its a problem, but room for improvement. Lack of more > network providers supporting Wikipedia Zero cause. Again that's not > necessarily a problem, because it ain't the fault of Wikipedia Zero. > > > How do you think they are serving different people and communities in > Ghana? > I think some survey or research into this will be great. I'll love to hear > the findings. > > What do they mean for the future of the Internet in Ghana and > internationally? > Wikipedia Zero means everything, in terms of education and research. I > wish I could say same for Internet.org, but honestly, makes no sense (at > least to me) at the moment. > > Just my 2¢ > rexford. > > On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, Gennie Gebhart <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Good evening everyone, >> >> Thank you, Mohammed, for the introduction (and for coming to meet at the >> University of Ghana yesterday). And thank you everyone for the warm >> welcome! Like Mohammed said, I am an American graduate student at the >> University of Washington, and I am in Ghana for about a month doing >> research on Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero. >> >> My research is focused on how Ghanaian mobile users interact with >> Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero. This includes how people think about them >> and the Internet in general; why people use (or do not use) them; and >> if/how the they affect how people purchase data (e.g. deciding on carriers >> and SIM cards, choosing a data plan vs. pay-as-you-go, deciding how much >> data to buy, etc.). >> >> Beyond those questions, though, I am most interested in hearing what >> you in the Wikimedian community think is most important about Internet.org >> and Wikipedia Zero. What are their greatest benefits, and biggest problems? >> How do you think they are serving different people and communities in >> Ghana? What do they mean for the future of the Internet in Ghana and >> internationally? >> >> Any feedback you can give me will be immensely valuable. You can email me >> directly, or just respond to the listserv and we can get a discussion >> started. >> >> Thank you in advance! >> Gennie >> >> >> --- >> >> *Gennie Gebhart* >> MLIS Candidate, 2016 >> University of Washington Information School >> [email protected] >> 206.354.7510 >> Twitter: @gegebhart | LinkedIn >> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=213355889> | Skype: >> genniegebhart >> >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Celestine Sucess < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Welcome Gennie >>> On Sep 1, 2015 10:00 PM, "Ray" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Welcome Gennie. >>>> >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> Gennie is a researcher interested in the Open Internet, more >>>> specifically Net Neutrality and Zero Ratings. Her research promises to >>>> provide interesting insights concerning the use and extent of Internet.Org >>>> and Wikipedia Zero in Ghana. This would go a long way to answer some of the >>>> pertinent questions we’ve been asking about them. >>>> >>>> Also, she and her team are touring the country to visit interesting >>>> places, and as you’d expect - they’ll be taking loads of pictures : ) which >>>> I promised we can help upload onto commons. >>>> >>>> Let us welcome her to this mailing list. >>>> >>>> -Masssly >>>> Sent from Windows Mail >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-GH mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-GH mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh >>> >>> >> > > -- > +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co > <http://khophi.co/about> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > >
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