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 <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>
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 <gegebhart(a)gmail.com>
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
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*Gennie Gebhart*
MLIS Candidate, 2016
University of Washington Information School
gennie(a)uw.edu
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 <
celestinesucess(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome Gennie
On Sep 1, 2015 10:00 PM, "Ray" <rayopk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome Gennie.
masssly(a)ymail.com 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
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