The Free Basics service provides useful Websites on health, travel, jobs and local government free of charge.
Naturally, Facebook is one of the apps included in the service.
Others are Ask.com, Baby Center, Bing, Dictionary.com,Wikipedia and AccuWeather, among others.
He argued that for every ten people connected to the internet, roughly one is lifted out of poverty.
Without reference to supporting research, he instead offers an anecdote about a farmer called Ganesh from Maharashtra state.
Ganesh apparently used Free Basics to double his crop yields and get a better deal for his crops.
This isnt about Facebooks commercial interests.
Who could possibly be against this?
This means that Free Basics is able to read all data passing through the platform.
Thats when the first wave of protest began.
The survey was conducted by citizen engagement platform LocalCircles.
source: www.techworm.net
