Technology
Internet.org Announced By Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has just announced the introduction of internet.org, a global partnership with the goal of making internet access available to the next 5 billion people.
The ultimate aim of internet.org is to offer everyone similar opportunities to remain hooked up and to bring internet connectivity to the remaining population outside of the 2.7 billion people who have access to the internet.
The list of founding members of internet.org include Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung, and with their force combined, it will result in joint projects, shared knowledge, and be a platform to mobilize industry and governments in order to bring the rest of the world to an online future.
The three key challenges internet.org are focusing on would be to make access more affordable, to use data more efficiently, and to assist businesses to drive access.
