Internet.org

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Internet.org is a partnership between social networking service company Facebook and six mobile phone companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, and Qualcomm) that aims to bring affordable Internet access to everybody by increasing affordability, increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.[1][2]

History

Launch

Internet.org was launched on August 20, 2013.[2][3][4] At the time of launch, Facebook's principal founder and current CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a ten-page whitepaper he had written himself elaborating on the vision.[5] In the paper, he wrote that Internet.org was a further step in the direction of Facebook's past initiatives, such as Facebook Zero, to improve Internet access for people around the world. He also said that "connectivity is a human right." A TechCrunch article about the launch compared Internet.org with Google's Project Loon.[2]

Further progress

Zuckerberg elaborated on his vision further in a video for TechCrunch Disrupt on September 11, 2013.[6]

On September 16, 2013, Facebook and Internet.org detailed some "1000X" futuristic technologies to move in the direction of their goal of universal affordable Internet access.[7][8][9]

On September 30, 2013, Zuckerberg released a video explaining Internet.org's goal of making the Internet 100X more affordable.[10]

Reception

An article published on Datamation in August 2013 discussed Internet.org in relation to past accessibility initiatives by Facebook and Google such as Facebook Zero, Google Free Zone, and Project Loon.[11]

In December 2013, David Talbot wrote a lengthy article for Technology Review titled Facebook's Two Faces: Facebook and Google Aim to Fix Global Connectivity, but for Whom? about Internet.org and other Internet accessibility initiatives.[12]

Writing for the US Finance Post, Asif Imtiaz said that there was "nothing altruistic" about Facebook's initiative to spread the Internet.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Internet.org: About". Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Constine, Josh (August 20, 2013). "Facebook And 6 Phone Companies Launch Internet.org To Bring Affordable Access To Everyone". Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  3. ↑ Farr, Christina (August 20, 2013). "Mark Zuckerberg launches Internet.org to connect ‘the next 5 billion’". VentureBeat. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  4. ↑ Schroeder, Stan (August 21, 2013). "Zuckerberg Wants to Bring the Whole Planet Internet Access". Mashable. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Zuckerberg, Mark (August 20, 2013). "Is Connectivity a Human Right?". Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  6. ↑ Constine, Josh (September 11, 2013). "Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet". Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  7. ↑ "Focusing on Efficiency". Facebook. September 16, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  8. ↑ Constine, Josh (September 16, 2013). "Facebook And Internet.org Detail "1000X" Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  9. ↑ Berkman, Frank (September 16, 2013). "Facebook Spearheads Effort for Global Internet Access". Mashable. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  10. ↑ Kerr, Dara (September 30, 2013). "Zuckerberg: Let's make the Internet 100x more affordable: Working with his Internet.org partners, Facebook's CEO outlines what needs to be done to drop the cost of Web access worldwide.". CNet. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  11. ↑ Elgan, Mike (August 21, 2013). "Facebook and Google: "We're Going to Need a Bigger Internet"". Datamation. Retrieved January 15, 2014. 
  12. ↑ Talbot, David (December 17, 2013). "Facebook's Two Faces". Technology Review. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 
  13. ↑ Imtiaz, Asif (January 6, 2014). "Nothing Altruistic About Facebook’s Initiative To Spread The Internet Read more at http://usfinancepost.com/nothing-altruistic-about-facebooks-initiative-to-spread-the-internet-11862.html". US Finance Post. Retrieved January 8, 2014. 

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