{"id":550088,"date":"2006-09-06T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550088-getting-the-doc-to-care.html"},"modified":"2006-09-06T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T12:05:42","slug":"getting-the-doc-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550088-getting-the-doc-to-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting the DoC to care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Veni Markovski, chair of the board for the Internet Society in Bulgaria, suggested that interested stakeholders bring their concerns to the DoC.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIf you want the government to solve your problem you have to make your problem a problem for the government,\u201d said Markovski.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Markovski suggested that interested parties approach the media and basically created enough pressure so that government is unable to ignore the issue.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This idea fits in with one of the prevailing themes expressed by other speakers at iWeek of encouraging a proactive approach accompanied by effective lobbying.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=52590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Communications (DoC) has become notorious for its slow-moving, lethargic approach to telecoms liberalization.  So what can be done to invigorate the Communications Ministry?<\/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-550088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550088"}],"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=550088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}