"We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere -- a child growing up in
rural India who never had a computer -- can go to a store, get a phone,
get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I
appreciate about the Internet," Zuckerberg said in an exclusive
broadcast interview with CNN's "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo.
Most of us take the Internet for granted. But think about what
Internet access would mean to 5 billion people who don't currently have
it.
That's the idea behind a new campaign, internet.org, led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
More than 4.5 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth don't have
Internet access, according to the World Bank. The biggest gaps are in
Eritrea (just 0.8% have access), Timor-Leste (0.9%) and Myanmar (1.1%).
Even in the United States, 19% don't have Internet access.
About 1 billion people are already using Facebook.
Zuckerberg imagines a world in which everyone has the "same ability to
share their opinions and speak freely -- I think that would be a much
better place."
"Connectivity is a human right," he added.
source: cnnnewsonline
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