Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that formation of internet.org, a group whose intention is to make the internet available to the entire world. It's a partnership with a number of prominent technology companies — Facebook, Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Samsung are among the seven founding members — will who engage in a number of initiatives that they hope will bring connectivity to the two-thirds of the world that currently don't have access to the internet.
According to the press release announcing the initiative, internet.org is taking aim at three specific challenges. Affordability, for which the founders will be developing cheaper means of access, including smartphones; data efficiency, in which they'll focus on...
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