{"id":548569,"date":"2006-04-20T07:13:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548569-it-boost-for-youth-in-nepad-countries.html"},"modified":"2006-04-20T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T07:13:51","slug":"it-boost-for-youth-in-nepad-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548569-it-boost-for-youth-in-nepad-countries.html","title":{"rendered":"IT boost for youth in Nepad countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The body has been formed as a New Partnership for Africa\u2019s Development (Nepad) initiative. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Their first step will be to create an internet portal for sharing information on matters such as career guidance, skills development, learning materials and sources of funding. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The portal will also address health and poverty issues and will be in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThis will help us share our experiences, using information and communications technologies across the continent,\u201d said Gladys Muthoni, one of the participants. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The members said young people had no fear of technology. This made them ideal for running awareness-building activities in rural communities and poor urban areas through voluntary peer education. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One of the group\u2019s commitments is to form a working group to develop a three-year plan of action to help realise their dreams through the use of technology. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUNG people from eight African countries have formed an e-Africa Youth Programme to promote information technology in their countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548569"}],"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=548569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}