— Every one of us. Everywhere. Connected.
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This will require a new effort.
Mark Zuckerberg aims to put the entire world online
Today, the internet isn’t accessible for two thirds of the world. Imagine a world where it connects us all.
Internet.org is a global partnership between technology leaders, nonprofits, local communities and experts who are working together to bring the internet to the two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t have it.
Sharing tools, resources and best practices, Internet.org partners will explore solutions in three major opportunity areas: affordability, efficiency, and business models.
Affordability
No one should have to choose between access to the internet and food or medicine.
Internet.org partners will join forces to develop technology that decreases the cost of delivering data to people worldwide, and helps expand internet access in underserved communities.
Efficiency
Transmitting data—even a text message or a simple web page—requires bandwidth, something that’s scarce in many parts of the world.
Partners will invest in tools and software to improve data compression capabilities and make data networks and services run more efficiently.
Business models
Connecting billions of people will be a massive global effort that requires ongoing innovation.
Developers, mobile operators and device manufacturers will work together to introduce business models that give people more ways to go online.
Making the internet available to every person on earth is a goal too large and too important for any one company, group, or government to solve alone. Internet.org’s partners have come together to meet this challenge because they believe in the power of a connected world.
Partners
Ericsson is a world-leading provider of communications technology and services.
MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions.
Opera products enable more than 350 million internet consumers to discover and connect with the content and services that matter most to them.
Samsung is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere through relentless innovation and discovery.
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world.
Qualcomm is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies.
We’re just getting started.
And there’s a lot of important work ahead. If you believe the internet should be available to everyone, stay tuned for updates and ways to get involved.
