{"id":75,"date":"2007-05-12T04:29:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2007-05-12T04:29:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T04:29:28","slug":"interesting_exa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2007\/interesting_exa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting examples of resourceful networking in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC news website<\/a> has a collection of brief reports about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/click_online\/6646469.stm\">ways that ICT use is being spread and used in poverty stricken areas in South Africa.<\/a> Everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mesh_networking\">mesh networking<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnpoint.net\/wireless\/cantennahowto.html\">tin cans<\/a> to free open source software.<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re on BBC&#8217;s site you may want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andfinally.com\/\">Bill Thompson&#8217;s<\/a> recent article about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6635027.stm\">computer use in exams (or lack thereof).<\/a> I couldn&#8217;t agree with him more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC news website has a collection of brief reports about ways that ICT use is being spread and used in poverty stricken areas in South Africa. Everything from mesh networking with tin cans to free open source software. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2007\/interesting_exa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-education","category-icts","category-leapfrogging-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}