[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

[Jasper Deng]

>From http://www.internet2.edu/about/ I see that they are also focused on
research.

>From that, I got the impression that like us, they are committed to the
accessibility of knowledge. They state on their website that without them,
many college researchers may not be able to get the information they need.

They can always use their normal connection to access us, but having a
direct connection could improve this access.


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jasper Deng, 12/10/2013 01:53:
>
>  I then read the
>> website and found that Wikimedia's and their missions go together very
>> well; part of it is the commitment to sharing and spreading information.
>>
>
> Where did you get this impression? I've read a few pages and to me it just
> seems the typical research network body.
> It's easy to see it from their international partners:
> http://internet2.edu/**international/partners/<http://internet2.edu/international/partners/>
> The only overlap I see is in defending net neutrality
> http://www.internet2.edu/**government/<http://www.internet2.edu/government/>but it's secondary in their work.
>
> Nemo
>