Facebook has followed its unsuccessful Internet.org programme in India with $1.2m of investments across 12 startups.
US-based social media platform Facebook has invested a total of $1.2m in 12 India-based startups across four categories – farmers, women, students and migrants – Tech in Asia has reported.
The initiative, named Innovation Challenge, follows Facebook’s failed attempt at bringing its Internet.org programme to India.
Internet.org is meant to give users who currently are not connected to the internet free access to selected websites. It was dropped in India following criticism that it contravened net neutrality, the principle that…
