Facebook's Zuckerberg to meet Modi today

October 10, 2014 09:43

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.

On Thursday, Zuckerberg had said that his social media network wanted to help Modi connect remote villages of India to the Internet.

India, Zuckerberg said, had only around 243 million of its people currently online and about a billion people not connected -- a huge waste of potential, he said, with the whole world robbed of their ideas and creativity.

"We believe that connectivity is a human right... it cannot just be the privilege of the rich ad powerful," he said at a conference in New Delhi on Thursday.

Zuckerberg said he was excited about Modi's Digital India initiative.

"He is committed to connecting villages online and we are excited to see how Facebook can help," he said.

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