Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: World's biggest social networking site Facebook's CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"It was wonderful meeting @facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We discussed a wide range of issues," Narendra Modi said in a tweet.
On his first visit to India, Mark Zuckerberg met Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad earlier in the day to discuss expanding reach of internet including by using alternate technology.
After an about hour long meeting, Prasad told reporters that meeting was fruitful and Facebook has shown interest in joining Digital India program of India.
Facebook in India has over 100 million active users. The company recently acquired mobile messaging application WhatsApp which adds to its reach in the country.
The billionaire CEO, addressing the first Internet.org summit yesterday said that he is very excited to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi because the latter is socially very well connected.
Zuckerberg said that he is also looking forward to discuss how Facebook can connect villages and help the government in its digitisation scheme. He will meet Modi to talk about how Facebook and the Indian government can collaborate on Internet.org.
The Facebook chief yesterday reiterated that India's next generation has the ability to define the future. The new generation has the potential to “bring India to world and bring world to India” he said.
“India is an amazing country with unlimited potential,” he added.
“Two-third of world population does not have access to internet. We need to change this to make internet more affordable so that everyone can have an access to it,” Zuckerberg said.
He further said that connectivity is a human right. He said that he wants to help build an internet which is affordable for everyone.
