On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:42 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/31 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: > > 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 >
That's Internet usage, not Internet access. Considering that 60% of the world uses cell phones (as in, has a subscription, those living in areas covered by cell phone signals is presumably much higher), and only 25% uses the Internet, apparently lack of Internet usage isn't due to an infrastructural problem in most cases. That's not to say that there isn't an infrastructural problem in some cases. In fact, those cases are probably the ones we should be focusing on. I've looked at bit and am having some trouble figuring out what percentage of the world lives in a location (other than by personal preference) where neither they nor someone nearby them can get Internet access. 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 What would you suggest for the target? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
