Skip to content
Digital Rights of India and South Asia, DEF
Digital Rights of India and South Asia, DEF

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Publications
  • Resources
  • Columns
  • Technology Today
    • English
    • Hindi
  • Contact Us
FacebookTwitterInstagram
 
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Publications
  • Resources
  • Columns
  • Technology Today
    • English
    • Hindi
  • Contact Us

Facebook will launch apps for rural India: Zuckerberg

October 31, 2014Daily NewsBy wp-admin

Ever since Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg landed in India, he has been expressing a desire to see how the grassroots connect and what they look online when if they manage to connect at all. This curiosity took him to a little-known village in the Alwar district of Rajasthan on Friday, which many people thought was a surprise visit.

But, like his business, Zuckerberg is a careful planner for his community outreach plans as well. His California office had instructed the India office of Facebook to find out how Zuckerberg could connect with the Indian rural youth, the ones who are either not connected or are new users of of the Internet. Their search ended at the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), a Delhi based organisation that has a mandate to take Internet-based services to rural India. It runs Community Information Resource Centre (CIRC) in many parts of the country.

One such CIRC is in the Chandauli village of the district. The ‘surprise’ element in Zuckerberg’s visit to this village came not from the visit but from his expression and his constant refrain “It’s amazing” whenever he interacted with young boys and girls of the village. Chandauli does not have Internet connectivity. The nearest point where the DEF team could find Internet was seven kilometres away in Vijaymandir in Alwar. So, it installed a powerful Wi-Fi modem with a 4 MBPS connection there in February this year, which constantly beams signals to the Chandauli centre.

Read More

[Source: epaper.dnaindia.com, Oct 11, 2014]​

About the author

wp-admin

अन्य कहानियां
37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
February 5, 2018
Using RTI benefits community
February 1, 2018
SECURE YOUR DATA
February 1, 2018
Work with Google, Facebook to block explicit videos on internet: SC to Govt
November 15, 2017
Raya Sarkar says all named in her list violated Visakha guidelines’ sexual harassment grounds
October 30, 2017
Boy, 10, Hit By Teacher For Not Bringing Aadhaar Number, Had Surgery
October 30, 2017
Recent Posts
  • The rise of mhealth and top five mhealth apps in India December 18, 2020
  • The Social Dilemma – 2020 – 95 Minutes – Available on Netflix December 18, 2020
  • Podcasts and the Pandemic: A crossover of technology and everyday life December 18, 2020
  • Blurring boundaries with Social media December 18, 2020
  • 2020 An Year of Ed-Tech December 18, 2020
Internet Rights was supported by

Funders and Partners
  • Cambridge
  • Facebook
  • Whatsapp
Contact us
Email: def@defindia.net

Find us on:

FacebookTwitterGoogle+YouTubeMail
Powered by Digital Empowerment Foundation