Mark Zuckerberg’s Next Facebook Townhall Destination Is IIT Delhi. We’re So

Zuckerberg will be answering questions from across Facebook, as well as from a live audience at the university.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is all set for his visit to India in the end of this month.

Mr Zuckerberg is arriving in New Delhi later this month to host a townhall Q&A at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

He urged people to ask questions in the Comment section of the post.

On September 27, Modi visited Facebook headquarters in California for a town hall interaction with Zuckerberg. Earlier Zuckerberg had said that India is personally very relevant to the history of Facebook. Modi met with the heads of the top USA technology companies to ask them to join his “Digital India” and “Make in India” initiatives.

In a post on his verified Facebook account, Mr Zuckerberg said the event would begin on Wednesday, October 28 at noon.

More than 70,000 members had liked the status update and almost 8,000 commented on it, just few hours after Zuckerberg made the announcement on Facebook.

In India, Facebook partners Reliance Communications to offer free access to about 30 websites.

India is apparently the predominant focus for Facebook’s Free Basics initiative. The platform was opened for any app developer who wished to include his/her services on it. The story goes that Apple founder Steve Jobs himself had recommended Zuckerberg to visit a temple in India “in order to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company” when the latter was considering whether to sell the social-media company. In India, Internet.org arrived at the same time as a growing debate around Internet regulation, and moves by telcos to introduce zero ratings plans triggered serious backlash. “And this is something I have always remembered over the past 10 years as we built Facebook”.