I'll look more carefully at mobile data web site you sent - http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats - Gantt. In World University and School's planning, especially for the developing / emerging world / all 3000-8000 languages / and all ~200 countries, I'd like to see similar mobile-usage data informed by a fair amount of on-the-ground research, partly in One Laptop per Child (OLPC) areas, but also widely elsewhere. I'd hypothesize that the varieties of mobile internet phone usage, and their related browsers, is large and diverse, and probably somewhat predictable into the '5 year future,' based on the past. Which ones to plan for is an interesting question?

Do WikiDataians know of other mobile internet phone usage statistics, across 200 countries +? And what, for example, does Google (which works on my handheld's Palm operating system) target, mobile-wise, as policy? Google doesn't develop many wikis - editable web pages - that I'm aware of; I do appreciate Google's excellence and thoughtfulness in programming, however. (WUaS is planning an universal translator, building on Google Translate, Sugar Labs' Translator, plus others - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator).

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Galloway, Gantt <gallowayg@pharmacy.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Scott -

Here's data on mobile pageviews by OS and continent (top 3 per continent). Go to http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats, search on "Proportion of global Web pageviews from mobile devices, by region, in Jan 2011 and Jan 2012".

I suspect that older OSs that didn't make the top three (and Blackberry) are going the way of the dodo.

Will WikiData work with OLPC machines?

Gantt Galloway, PharmD

Senior Scientist, Addiction & Pharmacology Research Laboratory
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
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San Francisco, CA 94110
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