Grants talk:TPS/Anelsona/Wikipedia Project for Offline Education in Medicine (POEM)

Dear Anne and team,

Thank you for your work to better understand the needs and use cases for using offline Wikipedia in medical environments. We are approving this request in full for 4,100 USD. Because this request is somewhat outside the normal funding scope of the TPS program, we are documenting the reasons for our decision. There is a strong fit with our strategic vision and mission. This proposal will increase our understanding about information needs in the medical community as well as usability of the most promising offline Wikipedia technologies. This work aligns well with the New Readers initiative and WMF's focus on understanding communities where internet accessibility is a challenge. The combined experience of the students, medical researchers, and faculty, in addition to the partnerships already developed in the Dominican Republic, lead us to believe the team is uniquely positioned to conduct this research. Finally, similar research done in Cuba has been of considerable use to the Wikimedia community and we believe outcomes from this trip will serve to further document ways to improve exiting offline technology and spread awareness about Wikipedia both in communities that have little access and in academic/medical spheres.

Typically, the TPS program is cautious about funding international travel. In this case, the range of travel seems reasonable in light of the international aims of the project. It also seems likely that your team will be able to accomplish things that local volunteers couldn't easily replicate because of the very unique skills and expertise you bring together.

Please review the next steps for your grant as described in "How the program works".

Our Grants Administrator will be in touch with you about your grant. Thank you for work on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Warm regards,
Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 03:04, 24 March 2017 (UTC)