Good to hear from you, Gennie.<div><br></div><div>And welcome to Ghana. I hope you enjoy your stay.</div><div><br></div><div>Concerning the questions you raised:</div><div>What are their greatest benefits, and biggest problems? </div><div><br></div><div><b>Internet.org</b></div><div>Benefits: </div><div><ul><li>I see no benefit with that thing. Its to most extent, a devil in disguise.</li></ul></div><div>Problems: </div><div><ul><li>It doesn&#39;t even work for PCs. Many using mobile devices doesn&#39;t totally mean the whole world has gone mobile compulsorily. </li><li>It doesn&#39;t play well with Wikipedia, especially when it comes to editing. Other websites aside Wikipedia loaded by the <a href="http://internet.org">internet.org</a> is heavily stripped down.</li><li>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.</li></ul><div><b>Wikipedia</b>:</div><div>Benefits. </div><div><ul><li>Reading/Editing works the same and seamless</li><li>viewing on PC/Mobile allowed, </li><li>communication with Wikipedia server is a one-on-one affair, without any middle-proxy-server things. </li><li>Pages aren&#39;t stripped down, What you request is what you get!</li></ul></div></div><div><br></div><div>Problem: </div><div><ul><li>I won&#39;t say its a problem, but room for improvement. Lack of more network providers supporting Wikipedia Zero cause. Again that&#39;s not necessarily a problem, because it ain&#39;t the fault of Wikipedia Zero.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>How do you think they are serving different people and communities in Ghana? </div><div>I think some survey or research into this will be great. I&#39;ll love to hear the findings.</div><div><br></div><div>What do they mean for the future of the Internet in Ghana and internationally?</div><div>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.<br><br>Just my 2<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">¢</span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px">rexford.</span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px"><br></span></font>On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, Gennie Gebhart &lt;<a href="mailto:gegebhart@gmail.com">gegebhart@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good evening everyone,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><div>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.).</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance!</div><div>Gennie</div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>---</div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#666666">Gennie Gebhart</font></b></div><div><font color="#666666">MLIS Candidate, 2016</font></div><div><font color="#666666">University of Washington Information School</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;gennie@uw.edu&#39;);" target="_blank">gennie@uw.edu</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666">206.354.7510<br><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px">Twitter: @gegebhart | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=213355889" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></span><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px"> |</span><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px">Skype: genniegebhart</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Celestine Sucess <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;celestinesucess@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">celestinesucess@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Welcome Gennie</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sep 1, 2015 10:00 PM, &quot;Ray&quot; &lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;rayopk@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">rayopk@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Welcome Gennie. <br><br><a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;masssly@ymail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">masssly@ymail.com</a> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Meiryo,&#39;Microsoft YaHei UI&#39;,&#39;Microsoft JhengHei UI&#39;,&#39;Malgun Gothic&#39;,&#39;Khmer UI&#39;,&#39;Nirmala UI&#39;,Tunga,&#39;Lao UI&#39;,Ebrima,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font face="Consolas">Gennie is a researcher interested in the Open Internet, more
specifically N</font><span><font face="Consolas">et 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.</font><u></u><u></u></span></div><div><span><font face="Consolas"></font></span> </div><div><span><font face="Consolas">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.</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Consolas">Let us
welcome her to this mailing list.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Consolas">-Masssly<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><div><font face="Consolas">

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