25. What are people doing?
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• Are they reporting malaria outbreaks?
• Maybe, but...
Are they searching for prices for crops?
26. Top sites across Africa
• Google
Facebook
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• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Local newspapers
27. What you need to know
• Ongoing march of technology is making real and usable Internet
access available to tens of millions TODAY
28. What you need to know
• Think forward 20 years
Massive connectivity
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• To real Internet
• For hundreds of millions
• Who do not speak English or French
38. Announcing Myanmar!
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Telenor has been awarded a mobile license and will start providing
services in 2014. Wikipedia Zero will be part of that pioneering
mobile offer.
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Less than 10% of people have mobile access - among the lowest in
the world
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Myanmar government target is 80% by 2016
39. Burmese language
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Burmese Wikipedia: 32K articles, 8 active editors, 1 very active
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People read the English Wikipedia
Burmese language requires zawgyi encoding (incompatible with
unicode)