{"id":149706,"date":"2019-07-16T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=250655"},"modified":"2019-07-16T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:51:21","slug":"minister-calls-for-africa-wide-digital-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/16\/minister-calls-for-africa-wide-digital-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister calls for Africa-wide digital effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tLIVE FROM MOBILE360 \u2013 AFRICA, KIGALI, RWANDA: Rwanda\u2019s ICT and Innovation minister appealed to authorities across Africa to join forces to ease the way towards the continent\u2019s digital transformation and inclusion goals.<\/p>\n<p>Paula Ingabire (pictured) said to open the way to Industry 4.0, there was a need for collaboration across the whole region, including the elimination of barriers brought by international trade rules and bureaucracy in some regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a need for us African governments to collaborate and ensure integration of the continent,\u201d Ingabire said. \u201cAll these digital technologies that are going to be used to accelerate transformation require us to act together to establish the right parameters that will help us ease and accelerate this digital transformation agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to eliminate barriers to cross-border trade, lift the bureaucratic processes involved that hinder this agenda from coming to a realisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingabire added she believed programmes already taking place in Rwanda could be replicated in other countries to widen access to digital services.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda offers a Digital Ambassador Programme, designed to increase digital literacy and so widen access to government-run services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE FROM MOBILE360 &ndash; AFRICA, KIGALI, RWANDA: Rwanda&rsquo;s ICT and Innovation minister appealed to authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/m360-africa-2019-news\/minister-calls-for-africa-wide-digital-effort\/\">Minister calls for Africa-wide digital effort<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/16\/minister-calls-for-africa-wide-digital-effort\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6220,2,6219,6221,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-CWC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149707,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149706\/revisions\/149707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}