Tag: internet.org
It is really quite hard to make sense of Facebook. It started life as a social network. Given his time again, Mark Zuckerberg would have designed it as a mobile app (so he said at Mobile World Congress a couple of years ago). If he had, one has to wonder whether he would be running the […]
A Facebook press release out today is upbeat about the success of its internet.org programme in Africa but, as usual, it seems it is our role to ask the tricky questions. At first glance, it certainly seems to be doing what Facebook wanted it to do. And seems to be a win-win with mobile operators in […]
The backlash against Facebook’s “free mobile data” Internet.org scheme has spread across the globe. A total of 67 digital rights groups – including i Freedom Uganda, Ecuador’s Usuarios Digitales and Indonesia’s ICT Watch – have signed a letter to Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stating concerns about the initiative. They say the Internet.org project threatens freedom […]
Facebook has tried to head off the perceived conflict between it Internet.org platform and Net Neutrality by opening up the platform to third-party developers. In a video blog post (here) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says “connecting everyone in the world and Net Neutrality can coincide”. The Internet.org platform which has so far been launched in […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – A group of India’s leading technology and Internet firms has pulled out of Internet.org, Facebook’s flagship effort to get billions more online, in a growing debate over free access and internet neutrality in the country. Net neutrality is the concept that all websites on the internet are treated equally. The debate over […]
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg was on hostile turf on Monday as spoke to executives at the world’s biggest annual gathering of the mobile industry, renewing attempts to win their backing to help reach billions of users with no Internet access. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Zuckerberg sought to […]
Mark Zuckerberg recently told Bloomberg that he is unsure whether advertising on his internet.org project is a “big part of the solution in the near term.” As a public-spirited organisation – with a big heart – DisruptiveViews can help with this. No. It is not. If Zuckerberg even thinks ‘advertising’ in the same breath as […]
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