Wikipedia Zero
“Information wants to be free.” - Stewart Brand Most of us take Wikipedia for granted. We tend to forget that access to Wikipedia requires access to a PC/laptop/phone and access to an Internet connection. We tend to forget those pre-requisites just the way we never remember that there is air around us. And even with the telecom revolution all over the world, things haven’t changed that much when it comes to Internet access: most people (I say “most”, so that’s most of Africa and poorer India and poorer China) still don’t have a data connection. And even the ones that do often have a slow connection. To summarize, there are 2 problems: 1) Data plans still aren’t affordable by everyone, 2) Connectivity speeds are low. Hardly the setup where those people are likely to surf much via their phones, is it? Which is why the Wikimedia Foundation came up with Wikipedia Z...