Are you ready for the next 3 billion
people to join the social web?
By the end of 2016, more than half the world will have internet access…
Source: International Telecommunications Union
What about the other half?
At the current rate of growth, another 3 billion
people will be able to get online by the end of 2018
It took 25 years to connect the first 3 billion.
How are the next 3 billion
going to get online so
FAST?
Cheap and plentiful mobile devices
Photo: Oxfam East Africa
More than two thirds of the world already lives in a place that has
some form of mobile data coverage
Massive infrastructure investment
Photo: Oxfam East Africa
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, promised to cover
75% of India’s population with a wireless data network by the end of 2016
New ideas, existing techZero-rating programs, like the Free Basics service offered under Facebook’s
Internet.org, don’t require any new infrastructure to get people connected
Moonshots
Source: Wikimedia Commons
For areas where expanding conventional mobile network infrastructure
isn’t practical, there’s Google’s famous Project Loon
Community-led initiativesHundreds of innovative smaller projects are poised to fill in whatever
coverage gaps remain
Source: Endaga
For #thenext3b,
getting online means
discovering a mobile,
social web
Picture the internet when
most of us first got
online.
Now imagine
connecting for the
first time in 2015.
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Jonathan Donner
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