Calling for efforts to ensure Internet access for everyone globally by 2020, Zuckerberg said Internet connections are a dynamic tool for sharing knowledge, creating opportunities, lifting communities out of poverty and promoting peace.
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The internet turned commonplace in developed nations within the Nineteen Nineties, however UN officers estimate that half the world doesn’t have dependable access – particularly ladies and women, whose schooling is significant to improvement.
The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Saturday during a United Nation’s luncheon in New York that Facebook is working with the global organization to bring Internet access to refugee camps.
Facebook’s efforts to connect the world with Internet continues to move into high gear.
We’ll have to wait and see what ‘ol Zuck’s got in store for us this time, but here’s one possibility: A network of giant drones that beam internet across the far corners of the planet using lasers. And research tells us that for every 10 people connected to the internet, about 1 is lifted out of poverty. “More than 4 billion people don’t have a voice online”.
He estimated that spreading the Internet could also bring affordable education to 600 million children who would otherwise go unschooled.
Other signatories included Jimmy Wales, co-founding father of free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia, and U2 frontman Bono on behalf of his One anti-poverty marketing campaign.
Mr Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla were seen in public at the weekend when they attended a White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Saturday launched its personal roadmap, which put a prime precedence on enhancing the well being and schooling for women.
About $25 billion has now been committed to meeting these goals, with $3.3 billion from the USA and pledges from Canada, Germany and Sweden.
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But Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organisation, acknowledged that cultural factors posed a challenge to helping girls.
