India is crucial to Facebook’s mission to connect next billion people to Internet: Mark Zuckerberg

NEW DELHI: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that India is crucial to the company's mission to connect the next billion people to the Internet, and added that one job is created for every 10 people that get access to Web, as he pitched connectivity as a tool for removing poverty. "India is the world's largest democracy... When you have a mission of connecting a billion people in the world, you can't do that without connecting everyone in India," Zuckerberg told a cheering crowd of around 1,000 students and guests at IIT-Delhi. "Over a billion people in India do not have access to the Internet," he said. "For every 10 people that get access to Internet, one job is created and one gets...