Mobile for Good: Wikipedia Zero and Beyond
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Wikipedia now hosts 30 million articles across 285 languages and reaches about 500 million people theoretically via carrier deals, but real usage depends on mobile adoption of cheap smartphones and better bandwidth (Nigeria moves from 1% online in 2001 to ~40% expected soon). Wikipedia Zero negotiates zero-data access with carriers and shifts from obscure xero URLs to the mobile site to drive use. A separate venture routes 10% of revenue from a mobile operator to charities, projecting $1B over years if market share scales.
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