The company pitched Free Basics as a way to give internet access, and all the wonderful benefits it can unlock, to the world's poorest people.
Unilever and internet.org will also conduct research to identify challenges to internet adoption in rural Indian communities, before starting a series of projects in India to help give internet access to those communities.
Michele Chang, an Intel designer who created the game, said that she hoped it would eventually include hundreds of players, and that Intel wanted to use the game to better understand how city dwellers use its Wi-Fi networks, which give Internet access to users of laptops and hand-held computers.
Once the bandwidth is established, the network can be used for anything from providing more content to giving internet access via television sets.
But most prisons don't give internet access to inmates, which presents some problems for iExpress, purportedly the world's first social media site for the incarcerated, which was recently started by an Australian named Brett Collins.
The U.S. government has lots of catching up to do: The Federal Communication Commission's 2011 "Connect 2 Compete" program, which was supposed to give Internet access to low-income citizens, only operates on a small scale, while the recent "Super WiFi" rumors proved a massive flop.
The German president, who was once an Olympic fencer, referred to the recent Youth Olympic Games in China, at which the participants were given open internet access.
Although it's debatable whether feature phones are actually all that more secure, given that most also have internet access and GPS functions.
But add all the televisions, phones, cars and household appliances that are currently being given internet access plus, eventually, every book, pill case and item of inventory as well and the need for IPv6 is clear.Though a vast improvement, IPv6 is not without its problems.
The BBC said it is trying to fill the gap by adding more shows to its Web site, and while that is helpful, it is not ideal for parents, given that Internet access in India is limited and slow.
