Facebook has announced the Internet org Platform

Facebook has announced the Internet org Platform

Facebook Opens Internet.org to All Developers

Facebooks free internet initiative for developing countries, Internet.org, announced today that its expanding its reach by opening the platform to all developers. Facebook launched the project last year with a select group of partners, including BBC and Wikipedia, in 14 countries. Now any site or company can create low-bandwidth sites and content delivery platforms that global internet users can access for free.

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 Guidelines for participation

1. Explore the entire internet

2. Efficiency

3. Technical specifications

The goal of Internet.org is to allow more people to experience the benefits of being online.

For most people who aren’t online, the biggest barrier to connecting isn’t lack of infrastructure – more than 80% of the world’s population already lives within range of a mobile signal. Instead, the biggest challenges are affordability of the internet, and awareness of how internet services are valuable to them.

The Internet.org Platform aims to give people valuable free services that they can use to discover the entire wealth of online services and, ultimately become paying users of the internet.

Services should encourage the exploration of the broader internet wherever possible.

To sustainably deliver free basic internet services to people, we need to build apps that use data very efficiently.

Operators have made significant economic investments to bring the internet to people globally, and Internet.org needs to be sustainable for operators so that they can continue to invest in the infrastructure to maintain, improve and expand their networks.

Websites that require high-bandwidth will not be included. Services should not use VoIP, video, file transfer, high resolution photos, or high volume of photos.

Websites must be built to be optimized for browsing on both feature and smartphones and in limited bandwidth scenarios. In addition, websites must be properly integrated with Internet.org to allow zero rating and therefore can’t require JavaScript or SSL/TLS/HTTPS and must meet these technical guidelines.

For more information on how to work with Internet.org, visit www.internet.org/platform

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