{"id":1029,"date":"2018-10-17T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:44:48","slug":"south-africas-first-village-owned-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s first village-owned ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9716-e1541056994324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9716-e1541056994324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/world-in-progress-south-africas-first-village-owned-isp\/av-45926668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/world-in-progress-south-africas-first-village-owned-isp\/av-45926668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>South Africa&#8217;s first village-owned ISP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rural community of Mankosi lies on a remote stretch of South Africa&#8217;s eastern coast. Most homes don&#8217;t have electricity or access to modern technology. So to fill this gap, the villagers decided to launch their own internet service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt&#8217;s reporting was supported by the Internet Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/world-in-progress-south-africas-first-village-owned-isp\/av-45926668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Listen to the full story here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle\u00a0 South Africa&#8217;s first village-owned ISP The rural community of Mankosi lies on a remote stretch of South Africa&#8217;s eastern coast. Most homes don&#8217;t have electricity or access to modern technology. So to fill this gap, the villagers decided to launch their own internet service provider. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt&#8217;s reporting was supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,171],"tags":[182,204,212,213,214,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}