
Facebook co-founder Zuckerberg to meet PM Modi today
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IBNS): Social networking giant Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday during his two-day visit to India.
Zuckerberg said he was excited about PM Modi’s Digital India initiative.
“He is committed to connecting villages online and we are excited to see how Facebook can help,” he said on Thursday.
Besides PM Modi, the Facebook co-founder is also slated to meet Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday.
India is the second biggest market for Facebook, after the US.
Zuckerberg came to Delhi on Thursday to attend the two-day Internet.org Summit, on October 9-10. The conference is aimed at making internet access affordable for people those who do not have it globally.
The Facebook co-founder is the third high profile honcho of a US-based tech firm, after Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, to visit India in the recent past.
Earlier, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg had visited India in July this year and met PM Modi and IT and Communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
She had said that there was enormous scope for expansion of Facebook in India, especially in the fields of education, health and other creative exposures.
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