If you asked every person in the world what their main missing basic need was, would the answer be "an internet data plan" ?<p>Grand plans like this are why $2.3 trillion on foreign aid over the last five decades still had not managed to get 12-cent medicines to children to prevent half of all malaria deaths.<p><a href="http://www.poverty.ch/newstudy/easterly-and-planners.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.poverty.ch/newstudy/easterly-and-planners.html</a><p>Still at least they will be able to post "Got malaria, doctor says I can have medicine if I get 500 likes" on their timeline
"... we're sharing some details of the work Facebook's Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.<p>Our goal with Internet.org is to make affordable access to basic internet services available to every person in the world."