Are you ready for the next 3 billion

people to join the social web?

By the end of 2016, more than half the world will have internet access…

Source: International Telecommunications Union

What about the other half?

At the current rate of growth, another 3 billion

people will be able to get online by the end of 2018

It took 25 years to connect the first 3 billion.

How are the next 3 billion

going to get online so

FAST?

Cheap and plentiful mobile devices

Photo: Oxfam East Africa

More than two thirds of the world already lives in a place that has

some form of mobile data coverage

Massive infrastructure investment

Photo: Oxfam East Africa

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, promised to cover

75% of India’s population with a wireless data network by the end of 2016

New ideas, existing techZero-rating programs, like the Free Basics service offered under Facebook’s

Internet.org, don’t require any new infrastructure to get people connected

Moonshots

Source: Wikimedia Commons

For areas where expanding conventional mobile network infrastructure

isn’t practical, there’s Google’s famous Project Loon

Community-led initiativesHundreds of innovative smaller projects are poised to fill in whatever

coverage gaps remain

Source: Endaga

For #thenext3b,

getting online means

discovering a mobile,

social web

Picture the internet when

most of us first got

online.

Now imagine

connecting for the

first time in 2015.

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Jonathan Donner

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