{"id":1038,"date":"2018-11-01T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:44:41","slug":"bringing-the-internet-to-rural-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the internet to rural Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_9536-1-e1541056709711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_9536-1-e1541056709711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/37RGr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/37RGr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Connecting schools in Zimbabwe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having access to the internet is often taken for granted in countries like Germany. But around half of the world&#8217;s population is still offline \u2014 that&#8217;s around 4 billion people. Those living in remote places are especially disadvantaged. In rural Zimbabwe, three brothers are taking it into their own hands to bring their community online. This report was supported by the Internet Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/37RGr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Listen to the story here!\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle\u00a0 Connecting schools in Zimbabwe Having access to the internet is often taken for granted in countries like Germany. But around half of the world&#8217;s population is still offline \u2014 that&#8217;s around 4 billion people. Those living in remote places are especially disadvantaged. In rural Zimbabwe, three brothers are taking it into [&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":[205,210,216,217,218,182,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"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=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}