Facebook's controversial program to distribute freebies Internet, Internet.org, έχει συνδέσει μέχρι σήμερα στο διαδίκτυο 15 εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους που διαφορετικά θα έμεναν εκτός σύνδεσης, σύμφωνα με τον Mark Zuckerberg σε μια ομιλία του στην India.
This number reflects overall data, not just connections made from India, where the number of new users has reached one million - although Internet.org arrived in the country about a year ago.
India currently has 130 million Facebook users, but is still the country of one billion people living without access on the Internet.
At the global level, this figure reaches four billion.
Last month, Facebook made some very important changes to Internet.org, starting with its renaming to Free Basics, and its opening to include more developers and web services.
Zuckerberg said net neutrality is an important beginning on Facebook, and added that half of people who try the free service end up becoming customers of a paid service.
I'm in India for our Townhall Q&A tomorrow, and I decided to visit the Taj Mahal. I've always wanted to see this. It is…
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On Wednesday, an 7,5 Richter earthquake hit Facebook and Facebook allowed more than 1,5 millions of people to communicate with their friends and family to see if they are safe.
Finally, Zuckerberg mentioned the Amber Alert program on Facebook, which was launched this year in the US to find missing children. Zuckerberg said he had already found at least one child and that it will say more about the issue to the entire global Facebook community in the near future.
