Facebook announces the launch of internet.org

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook has announced the launch of internet.org, a global partnership with the goal of making internet access available to the next 5 billion people. The founding members of internet.org -- Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung -- will develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online.

Enclosed is the link to the newsroom post: https://newsroom.fb.com/News/690/Technology-Leaders-Launch-Partnership-to-Make-Internet-Access-Available-to-All. The internet.org video is  hosted on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdWaZkvAJfM.The PDF of Mark's white paper entitled: "Is Connectivity a Human Right?" can be read here:  facebook.com/isconnectivityahumanright

On the launch of internet.org Mark Zuckerberg says, "For nine years, we've been on a mission to connect the world. We now connect more than 1 billion people, but to connect the next 5 billion we must solve a much bigger problem: the vast majority of people don't have access to the internet.

I'm focused on this because I think it's one of the greatest challenges of our generation. I've attached a rough plan I've written outlining the work Facebook is doing to solve this and how our industry can work together to connect the next 5 billion people. - https://on.fb.me/16Jxpod"