Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to meet PM Narendra Modi today

New Delhi: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet tech-savvy Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, a day after launching the ambitious Internet.org project in New Delhi. 

Earlier at the event, Zuckerberg said that that even though connectivity is a human right, only one-third of people in the world have Internet access.

Facebook is working extensively in rural India to enhance connectivity. ‘Internet.org  is an effort to bring basic Internet services to all’, claimed Zuckerberg . The pilot project of Facebook has already helped to connect more than 3 million people with this program.

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Facebook says that it will also take up the initiative of creating online content in several local languages, which will help Indians to feel more connected to the online world.  ‘If we can connect people over here, we can help bring this rich Indian culture to the world’, concluded Mark Zuckerberg.

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At this hour: Mark Zuckerberg meets Union Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad