be Orange’s partner in this important endeavour.”
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation today ann usatimes.cc ounced a major partnership designed to make knowledge more easily available to 70 million Orange mobile customers throughout Africa and the Middle East. In the first partnership of its kind for Wikipe usanews.cc dia, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide customers in both remote and urban areas of AMEA with access to Wikipedia without adding on data charges. In 2009, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation formed the world’s first mobile and Internet partnership to expand the reach of Wikimedia’s projects through channels on Orange mobile and web portals in Europe. This new partnership will be gradually launched throughout 2012 across 20 African and Middle Eastern countries wher news e Orange operates, with the first markets launching early in the year. The initiative is part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mobile strategy that aims to reach the billions of people around the world who access the internet