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Latin American Economy & Business - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-7430)
COLOMBIA: Peace, Love and Facebook
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg paid a flying visit to Colombia on 14 January, where he met President Juan Manuel Santos and launched a free Internet access service in an alliance with Tigo, a local mobile operator. While many responded positively to what they consider a serious initiative to reduce the ‘digital exclusion’ of Colombia’s poor, others were more critical.
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