Mark Zuckerberg Townhall Q&A at IIT-Delhi: As it happened...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is holding a Townhall Question and Answer session at IIT-Delhi to connect with Indians, whom he described as "one of our most active and engaged communities" on the social media.

28 October 2015

13:13 IST

If you have a community of a billion and a half people you have a lot of responsibility. Be it earthquake relief package effort or organ donation, you have a lot of responsibility to give back to society. Zuckerberg on having an app on missing people

13:08 IST

I made a lot of mistakes. I was just a college student. You try and learn. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you do something good, you get the power to learn from your mistakes. If you are doing something good and valuable for people, you'd be forgiven. Zuckerberg on decision taken during early days of Facebook and mistakes he made

13:07 IST

In really hard days my team members keep me going

13:07 IST

Zuckerberg on motivation in life: No one person can deal with all the challenges that are thrown to them. Data suggest that companies that have more co-founders are more resilient. So even if one of them wants to drop out eventually, you still have support from others

13:02 IST

Focus on what you do and what can change

13:02 IST

To me every good company is one which started thinking about others. Building a company is hard. But at the same time if you decide to start a company then you must have flexibility to try out different things. Most of the companies I can think of are the ones who cared about the people: Zuckerberg on elements of an ideal start-up

12:58 IST

When I was in school I built a lot of stuff I liked building. I built Facebook because I wanted to connect with people in my school. Its no magic. I think you guys are the best technical institutes in the world

12:52 IST

Zuckerberg on visiting Taj Mahal: The Taj is great. One of the few places in the world, you see and you go to find that its actually more awesome than the pictures

12:50 IST

Intenet.Org and Facebook strongly support Net Neutrality. But at the same time we push for complete access

12:50 IST

If there is a fisherman in the village, has access to the internet, feeds his family by selling fish, no one is hurt. So good Net Neutrality provisions, zero rating are necessary so that we can connect people

12:49 IST

Say for example if an operator charges you more for watching video etc, its bad

12:48 IST

Net Neutrality is an important principle. It is really important that we have strong regulations that stop companies from doing something that hurts others.

12:45 IST

In the future we might have the ability to put on the basic handset and instantaneously be able to go anywhere in the world. That would be pretty good, smiles Zuckerberg

12:45 IST

Phani's funny question: If you have supernatural power possessed by aliens what would you wish.

12:44 IST

The other area I am really interested in is health and science. We have only as a civilization focused on curing the diseases that face us. I think there is a really big opportunity to change that. Instead we should be focusing more on research system.

12:44 IST

Developing Artificial Intelligence to help the blind.

12:40 IST

Both in the US and worldwide we have done a few important projects. One of the things I am proud of is one of the cities we have started working, the education level has gone up from 56% to 69%.

12:38 IST

Facebook's mission is giving power to share. But I also sometimes think about its impact outside Facebook.

12:33 IST

In five to 10 years we want to be able to build computer system which can see better and recognise better and catch better human senses

12:33 IST

Intenet access helps job, reduces poverty

12:31 IST

Traditionally people write to their parents about the baby's movements. I want my family to be there. Perhaps take a picture or video and share with my family and friends who can feel that they are there, says an excited Zuckerberg

12:24 IST

Connecting India is key to connecting world

12:23 IST

For every ten people who get an acces to Facebook, one person gets a job

12:20 IST

India is very important for Facebook's mission to connect people

12:18 IST

India one of the most important markets for Facebook, says Zuckerberg