Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg to bridge digital divide with internet.org

Mark Zuckerberg has declared his intention to provide internet access for people with low or no internet connectivity. He is targeting
5 billion people.
He said "Most of us take the Internet for
granted. But think about what
Internet access would mean to 5
billion people who don't currently
have it."
"We want to make it so that anyone,
anywhere -- a child growing up in
rural India who never had a computer
-- can go to a store, get a phone, get
online, and get access to all of the
same things that you and I appreciate
about the Internet,"

Zuckerberg knows connecting
everyone is a tall order, and he has
signed up big tech companies to join
the effort, including Nokia, Qualcomm
and Samsung.
Other companies have embarked on
a similar mission.
Google ( GOOG, Fortune 500 ) is
sending balloons with radio antennas
into the stratosphere as part of a
project called "Loon" aimed at
connecting people without Internet
access.

Alcatel-Lucent is bringing its
inexpensive lightRadio technology to
small villages without cell towers. And
phone manufacturers are racing to
develop smartphones that cost less
than $15 -- a goal that even top-tier
smartphone makers such as Nokia,
Samsung and BlackBerry are working
diligently to reach.
How much will it cost? Zuckerberg
says he's already invested more than
$1 billion in his mission to get people
connected, and he's "hoping to do a
lot more."

"If we really just wanted to focus on
making money, the first billion people
who are already on Facebook have
way more money than the next five or
six billion people combined,"
Zuckerberg said. "It's not fair, but it's
the way that it is. And, we just believe
that everyone deserves to be
connected, and on the Internet, so
we're putting a lot of energy towards
this." he said.