We have offline Wikipedia. I have shipped devices to Kinshasa, and they arrived :-)
Of course they do not at all address the need for two way communication.
I am hoping Starlink will help when it comes online in a few years.
James
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:19 AM Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The BBC shows how dramatically expensive internet is in Africa.. For in my opinion local political reasons Wikipedia Zero has terminated. That is ok up to a point; the point being that we understand the consequences from this action.
Given that our data is NOT local, people have to pay a premium. What are we going to do to compensate for expensive Wikipedia that replaced Wikipedia Zero? Did we study the effects or are we not interested in the consequences of our actions? Thanks, GerardM
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