> > <snip> > > > > > Internet-in-a-Box[3] is a a WiFI-device with "Wikipedia in 37 languages, > a > > library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world's open source software and > > source code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide > > mapping down to street level.” > > > > This device sounds like a portable hotspot with an attached storage. > > I don't understand however, what device people would use to access this > hotspot? ios, android- smartphones aren't as common in that part of the > world yet. And you would still need electricity to charge those devices, > all that remains is the language barrier... > > Anyway, I think we already have something better - Wikipedia Zero. It was > designed for very similar situations. We just need some sort of a carrier > relationship to avail free access for everyone with a phone in those > region, I seem to recall a light text only version too that would work on > any phone. The carriers might even be receptive to the idea, if approached > correctly - Kul might know. > > Regards > Theo >
Interesting. Over here, the 'experts' are adjusting the image exactly the other way around: that smartphones are much more common there than we would expect, and that we underestimate the inventivity of people to get access to information/the internet. Especially in the context of people being suspicious of all those refugees being photographed with a smartphone. I don't know what is the truth, and why this difference of understanding exists - just adding to the noise here. Lodewijk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
