Into Google, Facebook and Microsoft committed to bring down the monthly cost of connectivity services in developing countries. It aims to broaden the audience of connected netizens around the world
Rome – From Google to Facebook, the main operators of the Web together in the new Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), an initiative that will attempt to reduce the cost Monthly subscriptions to the Internet to increase the population connected on the Planet. The latest figures published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) show that about 2.7 billion netizens spend an average of 30 percent of their income on services, access to the Internet from fixed lines . A4AI Into That’s why the project – in collaboration with the British government and many exceptional partners like Microsoft, Intel and Yahoo! – will seek to achieve the target set by the United Nations to bring down the global digital divide, containing the monthly cost of connectivity services up to 5 percent of the monthly income of each inhabitant.
The strategy announced by members of A4AI will focus on the adoption of specific policies for the creating the right ecosystem in favor of those in developing countries who can not yet afford access to the Web Google gave the example of Kenya which has been satisfactorily resolved by the introduction of a national plan for the development of broadband .
After the personal initiative of Mark Zuckerberg – Internet.org wants to bring connectivity services for a total of 5 billion people – corporate partners A4AI want to call into question the individual national governments, hoping yes to at least ten nations by the end of 2015 . There will then be a standard report on an annual basis for the creation of a affordability index that will periodically take stock of progress achieved. Into Old Mauro 
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