User:NMorales (WMF)/Sandbox/Global Mobile
The team
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Jack Rabah
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Middle East and Africa -
Jorge Vargas
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Latin America -
Dan Foy
Senior Product Manager, Global Reach -
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Asia and Eastern Europe -
Georgina Fields
Lead Programs Manager, Global Reach
Introduction
From 2012 to 2015, our team worked specifically on Wikipedia Zero partnerships across the Global South to address affordability as a barrier to access knowledge. Hence, we were called the Wikipedia Zero team. While Wikipedia Zero has been invaluable to understand how to best accomplish our mission in the Global South, we have learned that Zero is only one way to address the many challenges we discovered; high data costs, lack of awareness, infrastructure limitations, and digital literacy gaps call for a broader scope of partnerships to address them. Thus, we’ve discontinued Wikipedia Zero, and changed our name to the Global Reach team, in light of the many different tools and partnerships we will pursue to accomplish our goals.
For more information on Wikipedia Zero’s discontinuation, please see this announcement on the Wikimedia blog: Building for the future of Wikimedia with a new approach to partnerships.
Our mission
We believe in free knowledge. We believe in the potential of human relationships to achieve great things. That’s why we are working to reach every single person on the planet. Wikimedia projects are widely known and used in the US and Europe, but only 30% of Wikipedia traffic comes from the Global South. We thrive to make sure almost 80% of the world’s population living in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East can also share in the sum of all knowledge.
To learn more about what we are trying to accomplish, see below our quarterly goals.
Our work
Developing a variety of potential new partnerships will position us better to achieve our mission of expanding Wikimedia’s reach in the Global South. Local communities will be crucial to the success of these new initiatives, and we hope to work with them to further our mission. These efforts will also require cross-functional work across the Wikimedia Foundation teams, specifically with Communications, Community Engagement and Product, to amplify the positive results of these efforts. We will pilot many of these initiatives and manage our resources and expectations accordingly.
As part of our strategy, our team has a series of ongoing partnership pilots, conversations, and projects in our regions. All of this work is supported by our Senior Product Manager, and led by our Director of Strategic Partnerships for Global Reach.
How to contact us
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- Our team's FAQ.
