Facebook CEO Visits India To Push Internet.org

In an attempt to promopte Internet.org, Mark Zuckerberg makes his way to India.

The chief executive officer at Facebook Inc. Mr. Mark Zuckerberg recently addressed the masses at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) where a question answer session was carried out for as long as an hour. During this session Mr. Zuckerberg expressed his plans about the expansion of the social media in India.

The company believes that expansion is possible through Internet.org that they minimize data usage by providing an alternative stripped down version. Currently thev service has almost 1 million subscribers in the Indian market where they have been successful in bring almost 15 million people online.

In the video message, Mr. Zuckerberg has shared the company’s vision where they really want a world where individuals are connected to one another by sharing things to them when online. The idea is to span distances between Facebook users. To make this dream turn into reality, the company has first targeted India that has more than 130 million users on the social media platform. This market has huge growth potential for the company since 1 billion people still do not have access due to the Internet barriers.

He also mentioned in his address that Internet is usually taken for granted where people who don’t have access to the service are missing on a vital commodity. Internet provides information regarding job listing, education and healthcare that can assist people in their development.

Mr. Zuckerberg has a vision according to which if India has the access to Internet then it will give the locals a chance to be enlightened which in result will give birth to a strengthened economy along with spreading awareness. The locals have a lot of experience if when shared can actually be an abundance of valuable information for all those who wish to target a bolstering economy.

Internet.org is currently live in above 24 countries where 15 million people have come online through it. The service is expanding rapidly where a billion more people can benefit from it in the times to come. Moreover, regions where there is already Internet access have shown more usage of the service in India. At this point of time the service is limited to a few regions within India but the company is working towards making it penetrate to a widespread audience.

FB’s interest in India is actually a great sign for the local government bodies since it can result in stabilizing the economy in the times to come.