{"id":2019,"date":"2013-02-01T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php7.innershed.com:10000\/virtual-server\/link.cgi\/212.71.245.84\/http:\/\/www.connectafrica\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2013-02-04T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:40:28","slug":"rural-africa-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"Rural Africa left behind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Connect Africa Zambia \" src=\"http:\/\/api.ning.com\/files\/h9mWt8RwPtR-x3TB7yGP7PGRvFx1lg-J2vSnYOx7ECCWxofwDbzLPRPQqhl3Nn03hBjqhCKScw44KEufm8T5EJZptl1RiCaP\/MaintainingcommunityICTequipmentZambia.JPG?width=448&amp;height=336\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connect Africa continues its research to connect up rural communities<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the past 10 years, Connect Africa has been working to address the digital divide in Africa. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/31\/us-africa-telecoms-idUSBRE90U0MK20130131\">This article<\/a> on Reuters clearly outlines the challenges facing rural communities: networks simply don&#8217;t want to invest in an area where they don&#8217;t feel they will recoup the cost of building infrastructure. This is why Connect Africa continues its research and community development initiatives. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 10 years, Connect Africa has been working to address the digital divide in Africa. This article on Reuters clearly outlines the challenges facing rural communities: networks simply don&#8217;t want to invest in an area where they don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=2019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"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=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}