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 > Sent from Windows Mail > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh

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 &lt;gegebhart(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 > 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&gt; wrote: > >> Welcome Gennie >> On Sep 1, 2015 10:00 PM, "Ray" &lt;rayopk(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 >>> Sent from Windows Mail >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-GH mailing list >>> Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-GH mailing list >> Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh >> >> > -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co <http://khophi.co/about> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh