Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to connect the world

Victor Barreiro Jr.

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Speaking for Internet.org, Mark Zuckerberg outlines what needs to be done to get everyone online

THE PLAN. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook outlines the plan to make the Internet 100 times more affordable for everyone. Screen shot from Youtube

MANILA, Philippines – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world by finding a way to provide Internet connectivity to everyone.

Speaking on behalf of Internet.org, a group he co-founded with other companies to work on getting everyone connected, Zuckerberg outlined the basics of the plan to provide the world with Internet connectivity.

In the video, Zuckerberg said he wanted to make Internet costs 100 times more affordable. To do this, he outlined two major components that needed to be fulfilled for the plan to be economically feasible: reducing the cost of serving data by 10x and lowering the amount of data needed to be served by 10x as well.

To reduce the costs of transferring data, Zuckerberg says there are a number of solutions that can work together for this purpose, such as developing technology that extends networks to lessen the cost of building physical infrastructure.

It also includes determining the best use of the white space spectrum and creating affordable Internet-capable devices with sufficient features to get people the information they need.

When it comes to reducing data to supply basic services, Zuckerberg hopes caching technology would allow apps to store data locally on a device rather than forcing a data transfer all the time.

Data compression also plays an important role, as lessening the amount of data that needs to be transferred makes the entire system cost less for everyone involved.

While this is an outline of what Internet.org hopes to create, Zuckerberg is hopeful that, “if we can get to a point where everyone around the world has access to those same tools, then everyone is going to benefit from the innovation and ideas and hard work of billions of people around the world.”

Rappler.com

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.