Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Partner Dolia Estevez - Forbes
go to original October 11, 2014

Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim Helú and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg are discussing ways of joining together to bring the Internet to everybody on the planet. The Slim and Zuckerberg camps have started talks “about the possibility of doing something together,” Arturo Elías Ayub, Slim’s spokesperson and son-in-law, told me.

That “something,” Elías explained, would be a philanthropic, more than a business, partnership with Slim’s charitable foundations. Elías did not say who is involved in the talks.

Zuckerberg announced last month in Mexico City, where he was invited by Slim, that Facebook will work with Mexico through the Internet.org project to bring Internet to the 60 million Mexicans who are still not connected.

Before a large audience of Mexican youth, Zuckerberg said: “What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world, even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen.” Zuckeberg believes connectivity is a basic “human right.” About 4.4 billion people in the world have no access to the Internet.

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Our plan is to make basic internet services affordable, so everyone with a phone can join the knowledge economy. Mark Zuckerberg explains how we'll do it. (Internet.org)

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