{"id":139960,"date":"2015-09-28T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=139960"},"modified":"2015-09-28T08:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T06:55:17","slug":"universal-internet-access-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/139960-universal-internet-access-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"Universal Internet access campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A host of celebrities\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0including Mark Zuckerberg, Charlize Theron, and Bono &#8211; have kicked off a campaign to make Internet access universal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/09\/26\/us-development-goals-internet-idUSKCN0RQ0R920150926\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters reported that<\/strong><\/a> Zuckerberg and others promoted universal Internet access as a critical component to combat global ills.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg said the Internet is \u201ca dynamic tool for sharing knowledge, creating opportunities, lifting communities out of poverty, and promoting peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The universal Internet access campaign called on \u201cgovernments, businesses, and innovators to bring the Internet to the people who now do not have access\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Internet access<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/127110-worst-ever-internet-censorship-law-planned-for-south-africa.html\">Worst ever Internet censorship law planned for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/122308-r8-million-to-censor-sas-internet.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R8 million to censor SA\u2019s Internet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A host of celebrities &#8211; including Mark Zuckerberg, Charlize Theron, and Bono &#8211; have kicked off a campaign to make Internet access universal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":98216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,29622,1767,33080],"class_list":["post-139960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-charlize-theron","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-universal-internet-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139966,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139960\/revisions\/139966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}