Today, at AfricaCom in Cape Town, South Africa, Facebook’s Vice President of Internet.org, Chris Daniels spoke about Internet.org and the importance of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world not yet connected. As part of this effort, Chris announced the availability of Facebook’s Internet.org app for Airtel subscribers in Kenya later this week.
The app, also currently available to Airtel subscribers in Zambia and Tigo subscribers in Tanzania, provides people with free access to basic internet services so they can browse useful health, education, finance, employment, communication and local information services without data charges.
Through the app in Kenya, Airtel customers will have free access to:
- AccuWeather
- BBC News
- BBC Swahili
- BabyCenter & MAMA
- BrighterMonday
- Daily Nation
- Facts for Life
- Girl Effect
- Jamii Forums
- Messenger
- OLX
- Scholars4Dev
- SuperSport
- Totohealth
- UNICEF Ebola Information
- Wattpad
- Wikipedia
Providing free basic services is one way to demonstrate the value of the internet and we’ll continue to bring the app and basic services to other parts of the world. Read more about the update here.