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July 3, 2019 03:30 pm

India's Reliance Jio Partners With Facebook To Launch Literacy Program For First Time Internet Users

An anonymous reader writes: Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, has enabled tens of millions of people -- if not more -- to come online for the first time with his disruptive telecom network. He has changed how many Indians, once thrifty about each megabyte they spent browsing the internet, consume mobile data today. But many of these first time internet users are increasingly struggling with grasping the nuances of the internet -- often ending up trusting everything they see online and, in extreme cases, causing major chaos in the nation. Ambani now wants to help these people understand the ins and outs of the digital world.His telecom network Reliance Jio announced today a literacy program called 'Digital Udaan' for first time internet users in India. The two-and-a-half-year-old telecom network, which has amassed more than 300 million subscribers, said it has partnered with Facebook to create "the largest ever digital literacy program" that will offer audio-visual training in 10 regional languages. As part of the Digital Udaan program, Reliance Jio will hold training sessions to help its users learn about internet safety, and how they should engage with popular services and its devices. The operator said it will hold these sessions each Saturday and also provide training videos and information brochures to users.

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