In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerbeg, CEO and Founder of Facebook, discussed his company’s plan to tackle the internet accessibility gap over the course of the next ten years. “Today, unfortunately, world-wide, only a little more than a third of people have any access to the internet. That’s around 2.7 billion people. That means that two-thirds of people don’t have any access to the internet.”

To provide internet access in remote locations, Zuckerberg has set up a new project, called internet.org. When questioned about what kind of profits he expects to see from the social venture, Zuckerberg replied: “If we were primarily focused on profits, the most reasonable thing for us to do would be to really just focus on the first billion people who are already using our products. I mean, the world isn’t set up equally. The first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.”

“We’re here to help connect the world,” he added. “That’s our mission. We just turned ten as a company, and we’ve decided that for the next ten years, we want to take on some really big challenges in the world, like, helping everyone get online.”

Tech insiders realize that Google has been hard at work with the same mission for quite some time now. As early as 2011, the company’s Google X division, known for its advanced and secretive nature, launched a series of trial runs with Air Balloons which serve as internet satellites.

Whether Facebook or Google will win the the race for internet connectivity remains a mystery. Nonetheless, critics can all agree that internet connectivity can open up a world of opportunity to whatever foreign tribes it reaches. Or, as Zuckerberg wisely states: “There are studies that show that, in developing countries, more than 20% of GDP growth is driven by the internet, and that, if we connected a billion more people to the internet, it could create up to 100 million more jobs.”