Mark Zuckerberg to visit INDIA for .org Summit

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to visit India, the second biggest market for the social networking giant, later this month

Zuckerberg, who will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be in India to address the first Internet.org summit taking place on October 9-10 in the city.

The Internet.org summit will bring together experts, officials and industry leaders to focus on ways to deliver more internet services for people in languages other than English.

In July, Facebook's chief operating officer Sandberg visited India. She had met Modi, who has effectively used social networking during his election campaign and later even in governance.

When Modi met Sandberg, he had suggested the use of Facebook for improving governance, better interaction between people and the government, and to attract more tourists to India on ways to deliver more internet services for people in languages other than English

India is an important market for the social networking company. 

With over one billion users globally, the company gets over 100 million users from India. Many of these users log onto the website from their mobile devices.