Facebook has taken its internet.org app to the Colombia after meeting Colombian President with an aim to provide free internet access across the country.
The social media king first introduced the app in Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya back in July and now it’s heading to Latin America. Now the useful connectivity tools like Facebook, Messenger, UNICEF, Wikipedia, AccuWeather and more will become ubiquitous in the country.
Where Google plans to equip the world with internet through balloons under itsProject Loon, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg also seem active to connect the world with Interent.org.
Internet.org is a global partnership between technology leaders, NGO’s, local communities and tech experts who are working together to bring the internet to the two third of the world’s population that doesn’t have the access to the connectivity.
Presently only 50% of the Colombian people have the internet access, and by launching the app, they’ll give people free access to basic internet services for jobs, health and communications.
Mark Zuckerberg also wrote about this development on his Facebook page:
By partnering with the Colombian government, we’re also able to include e-government services for the first time, for education and agriculture.We hope to spread Internet.org to more countries soon and we’re excited to continue on the path of connecting the whole world.
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