Hoi,
Wave in its reference implementation relies on HTML 5. This means that it
requires a modern browser. With a browser it is possible to access data that
is on a LAN or on the local computer. This would allow us to have
"Wikipedia" type content stored locally or on a LAN. One question is how
will resources will react when newer data becomes available, will it
synchronise? When a resource available to Wave *can *be updated, it makes no
difference if it on a system on a LAN or on the WAN / Internet when it is
the availability of data that is essential.
When you think of Wave as a replacement for e-mail it is easy to forget
about the other aspects of Wave. At its most basic it provides a platform
for data that can be approached with a browser.. This line of thought begs
the question, to what extend the Wave reference implementation will be able
to use gears for local data storage..
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/5/31 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
If Waves works anything like email, then it will
be possible to use it
when
not directly connected to the Internet.
How's that for helping get
Wikipedia to people without Internet access?
Not very. Waves, like email, should work for people with intermittent
internet access, but it's pretty useless for people with no internet
access.
Wikipedia
has already become a dominant information source for the 1.5
> billion people with Internet access thanks to
Google.
>
How does being a dominant information source for people help the WMF
achieve
its goals?
I don't think being dominant helps in any way, but being an
information source for people basically *is* the WMF's goal.
The goal is for the information to get to the people. Being the source
is
only the means to that goal.
Fair enough, but I think that's mostly a technicality. Information
travels along a chain, wherever the WMF is in that chain you can
probably call it a/the source.
> > Personally, I didn't even know the
number was 5.2 billion. Should I
do
this
further research myself, or can someone answer
these questions for me?
Wikipedia [1] tells me there are 1.58 billion internet users world
wide. It also tells me [2] there are 6.78 billion people in the world.
That leaves 5.20 billion non-internet users.
Ah. :( That's not very helpful... What does it mean to be an "internet
user"?
Don't know, I didn't look at the methodology of the statistics (rookie
mistake, I know). Hang on... Ok, it looks like the data comes fro a
variety of sources, so I doubt there is a common methodology. Take the
statistics with a large pinch of salt!
While we can't directly help with things like
getting
people access to clean water, education is a very
important part of
any long term scheme to get people out of poverty, and we can
certainly help there.
I'd say education is lower on the list than most people think, unless you
mean education as a means to get the hell out of the place you're living
in.
It depends if you are thinking long term or short term. Short term,
education is pretty useless, but long term it is extremely important.
I don't think getting people out of poverty by moving them is a
sustainable strategy, you need to make the poor villages wealthier.
That means enabling them to move beyond subsistence living, which
education is a key part of.
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