At an event hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim in Mexico City on Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network will continue to pursue its objective of bringing the whole world online --- an effort for which the company is ready to spend billions of dollars over the next decade.

Asserting that Facebook really cares about "connecting everyone in the world," Zuckerberg said that the company believes that if Internet connectivity is made available to all the people across the world, all businesses and national economies will become better.

In pursuit of its aim to bring Internet to the whole world, Facebook launched its Internet. org project last year. The project was undertaken to connect billions of people who lacked access to the Internet in regions like Africa and Asia. To achieve its goal, Facebook is working with phone operators.

Facebook's efforts are noteworthy, especially against the backdrop of International Telecommunications Union (ITU) statistics which have revealed that by the end of 2014, nearly 3 billion people worldwide will have access to the Internet --- with Facebook social network already being used by 1.3 billion people.

About Facebook's efforts in bringing Internet to the whole world, Zuckerberg said: "Even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world."