India a huge opportunity, says Zuckerberg

NEW DELHI: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (29) wants to connect five billion people on the internet. Of course, most of them will be on Facebook too.
In his first interview to an Indian publication, Zuckerberg told (HT’s sister publication) Mint: “One of the things I think is really unfair about the world is that the richest 500 million people have more money than the next six billion combined.”

Zuckerberg hopes to change that over the coming decades by giving everybody access to the internet “so that everyone has access to the same information and same opportunities”. And India, he said, “is a really big opportunity if we can achieve something like this”.
The Facebook founder, who is seeking out partnerships with other companies to fulfil his dream, wants to work in India with mobile operators as well as phone makers like Nokia and Samsung to provide Net access to people who can’t afford it now.
NAME- RAJ GAURAV
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