Thoughts:
1) pitching the idea, and creating language, around distributing sets of
5-10. bundle so that shipping is half the total cost of a set.
Networks of people who all share one point of contact who knows how to
update or troubleshoot them have more meaningful access and a better
experience (and lower total cost of ownership).
2) lack of awareness tracks marginal cost for local groups. $30 for a
school or clinic, including travel time for the person dropping it off -->
something I would do for every clinic + nursing school + other school in a
district. Lower cost makes it reasonable for a graduating class of
nurses + doctors to all have one to take with them to their next place of
work.
3) tipping points of awareness in a region make use + communication about
nodes more reliable, more useful (general purpose; not just in one
location) -- and lead to better feedback about types + languages of content
most needed that is still not included.
4) maps of where these are desired but not available, so that others can
send them, is a parallel need that can offset unit costs. Plenty of people
want to help complete delivery to points on such maps (including UN orgs
trying to provision global information goods).
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 7:14 PM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As the price of hardware continues to drop the
financial barriers to
health information for all continue to fall. We are now able to package and
ship an offline version of Wikipedia in multiple languages for around 40
USD. And we have sent out nearly 250 units in just over a year.
The question now is what are the remaining barriers to widespread
distribution and access? Is it a lack of awareness among those who need
this technology? Is it still too expensive? Are people looking for
different types of content? Or maybe different languages?
Peoples thoughts?
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MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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