Nice. I assume you would know if the Wikimedia Foundation has already approached the local MNO's. Any of them biting? In other words, when can this become a reality for Kenyans.


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stephen Wanjau <stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
It is a mutually beneficial partnership to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Mobile Service Providers;

To the MSP

* Positive marketing and PR benefit to supporting the mission, and the opportunity of offering a unique service to new and potential customers

*Data we have collected at WMF shows that 28% of existing readers would be more likely to buy services from an operator that provided Wikipedia Zero.

To the Wikimedia Foundation
*Aim is to reduce barriers to accessing free knowledge in a quest to let everyone share in the sum of all human knowledge.

//Stephen

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Cool. So the mobile operators pick up the cost of data transmission vi partnerships with the Wikimedia Foundation (if I understand correctly).

I wonder which local MNO will do this first, if any?


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wanjau <stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero

//Stephe
Wikimedia Kenya
Board Member


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