{"id":549261,"date":"2006-06-21T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549261-mtn-takes-internet-to-poor.html"},"modified":"2006-06-21T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T15:38:14","slug":"mtn-takes-internet-to-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549261-mtn-takes-internet-to-poor.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN takes internet to poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The pilot project of the MTN@ccess enterprise was unveiled by MTN South Africa managing director, <\/font><font size=\"2\">Maanda Manyatshe<\/font><font size=\"2\">, at the Alexandra Resource Centre in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The primary aim of the project is to provide empowering opportunities within communities for education, enterprise and business development through connectivity to data and business tools such as the internet, e-mail, payphones and fax services. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The MTN@ccess enterprise and portal project is currently being rolled- out to a further ten community sites within Atteridgeville, Alexandra, Vosloorus, Tembisa, Mamelodi and the Pretoria CBD. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;MTN&#8217;s commitment to the programme is a firm one. Our company is making significant investments in the development of community enterprise development initiatives like this one,&quot; says Ashraff Paruk, head of strategy and product innovation at MTN South Africa. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative to provide convenient internet connectivity as well as access to a wealth of education information via a bespoke online portal to some of the country&#8217;s poorest communities was launched on Wednesday by mobile services operator MTN. <\/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-549261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549261"}],"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=549261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}