2009/5/31 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: > Brand new and for retail price, sure. But used and/or at cost (which surely > there are publishers willing to provide for this sort of thing), I don't see > how you could beat the established players.
For fairly obvious reasons the existing publishers have not encouraged the second hand market. > I'm not sure we should waste everyone on this mailing list's time going > through the details and formulating a plan. Let's take Tagalog. We've got > 22 million native speakers, of which what % have internet access, 15% maybe? http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia.htm > What % have electricity? The Philippines has more than 85 million people, spread over some 7,100 islands. Most parts of the country, and all large municipal areas, have access to electricity, but around 8 percent of the country’s 42,000 barangays (villages or neighborhoods) re- mained unserved in 2005. Roughly half of these are in remote rural areas. The government has set a goal of bringing electricity to all barangays by 2008 http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:HlRig71JtZwJ:www.gpoba.org/docs/OBApproaches_Philippines_SPUG.pdf+electricity+supply+in+the+philippines&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a >What % have > access to a library? What are the schools like for them? Literacy rate is 92.6%. Not bad. > What topics would be most > important? Thats the fun bit > How big is the Tagalog Wikipedia? 22K http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikipedias > What is the government's role in education? It runs schools. > How is the > funding? US$138 per pupil But schools would not be the target in this case since most of the pupils likely have a reasonable grasp of english since that is what some of the lessons are taught in: http://countrystudies.us/philippines/53.htm -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
