{"id":1519,"date":"2012-07-16T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php7.innershed.com:10000\/virtual-server\/link.cgi\/212.71.245.84\/http:\/\/www.connectafrica\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2012-11-03T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:16:51","slug":"technology-is-not-everything-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Technology is not everything &#8211; yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Dion Jerling, Connect Africa Special Projects Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Technology is such a fragile resource, in that it can be lost in a split second. Add to that a lack of food and you&#8217;ll last one month; a lack of water and you will last a few days; at which point the subsistence farmer who has never heard of Google, will become critical to your survival.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few hours our connected modern way of life can be terminated and lost. Yet we can loose everything in the space of a few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lunch-time-musings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"lunch time musings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lunch-time-musings-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"lunch from van | Connect Africa | image\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another analogy, put a Wall Street banker into the jungles of the DRC and he&#8217;s likely to be dead in a month.<\/p>\n<p>Put a Congolese villager in Wall Street, and within a month he may well be a millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Lets not underestimate the power of unconnected people. Then, lets connect them.<\/p>\n<p>{Photo of our lunchtime musings spot, between Livingstone and Lusaka}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dion Jerling, Connect Africa Special Projects Director Technology is such a fragile resource, in that it can be lost in a split second. Add to that a lack of food and you&#8217;ll last one month; a lack of water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}