{"id":1236625,"date":"2025-03-04T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236625"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:00:34","slug":"meta-and-internet-society-team-up-to-expand-internet-access-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236625","title":{"rendered":"Meta and Internet Society team up to expand internet access around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Meta and the Internet Society have established the Connectivity Co-Funding Initiative, which aims to expand affordable internet connection around the world. They announced the new project at <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/mobile-world-congress-2025-what-to-expect-from-nothing-samsung-xiaomi-and-more-140057415.html\">Mobile World Congress<\/a> in Barcelona, Spain. The partners are committing a $30 million investment through 2030 that will go to funding infrastructure development in various communities, specifically those overlooked or intentionally ignored by commercial providers. In addition, the initiative&#8217;s money will go towards training programs that improve the technical know-how of marginalized grounds, to community-centered solutions for underserved areas, as well as to locally owned networks that create jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This an expansion of the non-profit organization&#8217;s <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/news\/press-releases\/2023\/global-partnership-with-meta-to-grow-the-internet-and-strengthen-local-ecosystems\/\">partnership with Meta<\/a>, which started years ago when they worked together to improve internet connectivity in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America by developing Internet exchange points. These points, or IXPs, are physical locations where internet providers can exchange traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meta is only the Internet Society&#8217;s first partner for the Co-Funding Initiative, and the non-profit org is putting out a call for more partners who can help grow that fund. &#8220;This new Connectivity Co-Funding initiative, supported by Meta, is a prime example of collective action that will help provide meaningful access to more than 2 billion people across the world with insufficient or no Internet,&#8221; said Sally Wentworth, President and CEO of the Internet Society. &#8220;It is our hope that this fund plays a pivotal role in reducing this gap and creating a more equitable digital society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/meta-and-internet-society-team-up-to-expand-internet-access-around-the-world-080034114.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta and the Internet Society have established the Connectivity Co-Funding Initiative, which aims to expand affordable internet connection around the world. They announced the new project at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The partners are committing a $30 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}