Digital Winners 7-8 November: Crowdsourcing for the common good, Jimmy Wales, Founder Wikipedia

1. Wikipedia Zero:
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Knowledge Set Free
Jimmy Wales - November 5, 2013

2. Imagine a world in which every
single person on the planet is
given free access to the Sum of
all Human knowledge

3. 27
MILLION ARTICLES

4. 285
LANGUAGES

5. Key stats
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8 languages have over 1,000,000
46 languages have at least 100,000
120 have at least 10,000
223 have at least 1,000

6. Scandanavia
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Swedish - 1.6 million articles (but Lsjbot has created 1,000,000 of
them!)
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Bokmål - 400,000 articles
Nynorsk - 106,000 articles
Saami - 7,616
Danish - 182,998

7. 516
MILLION UNIQUE
VISITORS

8. Who?

9. Why know who Wikipedians are?

10. This is why.

11. By the numbers
87% male
Average age of 26
Double the % of PhDs

13. The Wikimedia
Foundation

14. The Wikimedia Foundation is the
charity that runs Wikipedia.
Just over 150 employees and 100,000 volunteers!

15. Imagine a world in which every
single person on the planet is
given free access to the Sum of
all Human knowledge

16. Imagine a world in which every
single person on the planet is
given free access to the Sum of
all Human knowledge

17. Here is what you know

19. True enough but...
clouds the mind!

20. What you probably don’t know

22. Internet usage
• Let’s just look at one country, Nigeria
2000 - 0.1% of country online
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• 2006 - 3.1%
• 2009 - 16.1%
• 2011 - 29.0%

23. Bandwidth
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• January 07 - 693Mbit/s
• End of 2012 - 12,000Mbit/s
January 02 - 72Mbit/s

24. New York
Lagos, Nigeria

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

29. Wikipedia Zero

30. 500M reach and growing

31. Telenor Wikipedia Zero countries
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Malaysia
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Montenegro
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Bangladesh
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Thailand
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Pakistan
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Serbia
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India

32. Next step: focus on usage
Free page views

33. How to increase usage?

34. Innovative new interface to
reach mobile users who do
not yet use mobile internet Kenya

35. zero versus m

36. Demand from consumers

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)

40. Thank You!