AWARD WINNING: Wikipedia has been hailed as an "important example of international, democratic, open and participatory cooperation that has managed to make universal knowledge available to everyone".
BARCELONA: The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the website to its nearly 12 million mobile phone customers in war-torn Iraq.
The partnership is the first by a telecoms operator in Iraq and the foundation’s Wikipedia Zero project, which waives mobile data fees to subscribers of participating telecom operators so they can access Wikipedia without using their mobile data.
