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The browsing experience offered by internet.org isn't just some walled-off version of the open internet, with network costs underwritten by Facebook. They also
by amk_ 11y ago
The browsing experience offered by internet.org isn't just some walled-off version of the open internet, with network costs underwritten by Facebook. They also do a lot of work to make sites offering health information, commodity prices, local job searches etc not only viewable (layout wise) on mobile but able to work on extremely slow networks and on low-end devices.
See this review: https://medium.com/mwater-technology-for-water-and-health/review-of-the-internet-org-app-in-tanzania-42cdd7daa3c2 https://medium.com/mwater-technology-for-water-and-health/re...
- sa1 11y ago> They also do a lot of work to make sites offering health information, commodity prices, local job searches etc not only viewable (layout wise) on mobile but able to work on extremely slow networks and on low-end devices. None of this is made easier or possible by any technological framework provided by Internet.org. You are free to optimise mobile websites for slow connections on the normal Internet. Governments should be moving towards full and complete Internet with a restricted data cap instead. The next best thing would be something ad-supported, rather than this.