[Foundation-l] We're not just here to run a hideously popular andexpensive website, after all

[mike.lifeguard]

Agreed. I seem to remember a talk [1] where Jimmy said "We're very
interested in the digital divide, poverty worldwide..." and so on,
indicating that we're not going to be just a website, but rather a genuine
effort to get knowledge out to the whole world. If that's the case, what are
we doing to reach beyond the internet-connected world?
-Mike.lifeguard at enwikibooks

[1] http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37


-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com] 
Sent: March 5, 2008 6:38 AM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; English Wikipedia
Subject: [Foundation-l] We're not just here to run a hideously popular
andexpensive website, after all

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23906

(in the bush in Africa)

"Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine that was the only video camera owned by
a local resident for miles around. The marginal benefit that one
uncommon piece of technology can have when no others are around must
be immense."

Getting our content and the requisite technology out to the world has,
as far as I recall, always been expressly part of what we're all doing
here.


- d.