Indonesian president’s success in giving access to his country excited Facebook founder and encouraged him to take part of this project. Mark Zuckerberg landed in Jakarta to hold a speech at one of the developer summit - scheduled in his internet.org initiative - to render assistance in providing easier and cheaper internet access and to promote useful free services regarding health, education and basic financial services. During his staying, he had a long chat with Indonesian president Joko Widodo where the two discussed in-depth about social media campaigning directed to unleash the archipelago economic potential and illustrate benefits and opportunities of the digital revolution. In Indonesia, internet penetration only amounts at 20% of the population, but if we consider mobile data plans, this percentage grows up to 85%. This is the reason why substantial intervention will be focused on developing mobile friendly websites and apps, besides pushing phone carriers to offer cheaper data plans. As far as technical issues are concerned, the major problem remains how to technically connect a complex of more than 17000 islands: building a solid physical infrastructure will be a top priority. The parts know that it will be simply challenging, but both the country and Facebook have much to gain from this partnership. To show his engagement Zuckerberg is also collaborating with the Swedish company Ericsson, providing support for app development and testing, recreating Indonesian network conditions in a specifically dedicated lab. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Thursday, 16 October 2014 (Source: The Wall Street Journal) This news has been realized by gLAWcal—Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy and the University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy which are both beneficiaries of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) coordinated by Aix-Marseille University (CEPERC). This work has been realized in the framework of Workpackages 4, coordinated by University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy.

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