Few weeks after welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Facebook headquarters at Paolo Alto, it’s the time to greet Facebook CEO c to Indian grounds where he will be hold a Townhall Question and Answer Session. Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to land to the capital city, Delhi on 28th October where he will be the host to the townhall event.
The news broke out after Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook post on Friday that the next FB Townhall Q&A will be held in Delhi on Wednesday, October 28 at 12 pm IST. Well, with this post there seem to flow a wave of energy across the nation, as the biggest social media CEO and youth icon will be making his deep presence. After Narendra Modi had a warm conversation with Facebook, it apparently indicates that its Narendra Modi’s initiative that have lead this big event held in the capital city of India.
Through his post, Zuckerberg has urged Facebook users to post their questions which will be answered by Mark at the Townhall conference. A force of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) students will also be gathering there where this tech and social magnate will be answering all the questions.
After the Facebook project internet.org was renamed as Free Basics, it turned out as a downpour in India as many experts believe it deteriorates the principles of Net Neutrality. With the humongous number of Facebook users in India that accounts for 130 million, it is supposed to be a wide welcome for this mastermind. With the increase in the no. of social media savvy people, India seamlessly ushering a lucrative market for Facebook.
During the visit of Narendra Modi to Facebook headquarters, the one on one conversation lead Zuckerberg express his deep connection with India and he said “Early on in our history, before things were really going well and we had hit a tough patch, and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook and thought we should sell the company, I went and saw one of my mentors, Steve Jobs, and he told me that in order to reconnect with what I believed is the mission of the company, I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early in his evolution of thinking about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future to be.
“So I went and I traveled for almost a month and seeing the people, seeing how people connected, and having the opportunity to feel how much better the world could be if everyone had a stronger ability to connect, reinforced for me the importance of what we were doing. And that is something I have always remembered over the last ten years as we built.”
Well, with this already knitted thread between Facebook and India, it marks that this connectivity may ladder up in the coming years which may be a dynamic force towards a progressive growth.
