Zuckerberg launched Internet.org to connect the whole world to the Internet

Mark Zuckerberg announced the formation of a partnership Internet.org, the purpose of which is to make the Internet accessible to the whole world, writes The Verge. In addition to Facebook, a number of other technology companies have joined the partnership - Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera and Qualcomm.

Seven companies have decided to join forces for a number of initiatives that, they hope, will help two thirds of the globe go online, which currently does not have such an opportunity. Interestingly, the site Internet.org , launched yesterday, has already been translated into Russian.

According to a press release from the new partnership, Internet.org intends to focus on three areas. First, it is accessibility, for which the founders will develop cheap means of access, including smartphones.
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Secondly, this is the efficiency of data transfer, for which the group will focus on data compression and other methods that will allow services to occupy less bandwidth.

And third, these are business models that Internet.org members are going to develop to encourage companies of all types to provide cheaper and faster Internet access in targeted regions.



Emerging markets have already become objects of interest in recent years. As the spread of the Internet and devices approached the saturation point in some countries, companies began to pay more attention to regions of the world where social, economic, and other factors hindered the same development.

Initiatives such as Mozilla Firefox OS and Google Project Loon have tried to solve certain aspects of the problem, but a holistic solution requires much more extensive efforts. This task is ideal for a coalition of companies of this size and caliber.

According to Zuckerberg, Internet.org is more concerned about human rights than business interests: “The unfair economic reality is that those who already have Facebook are richer than the rest of the world put together. It is possible that the next few billion people will not be profitable for a very long time, if they bring it at all. But we think everyone deserves to be connected. ”