{"id":32642,"date":"2014-05-18T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/can-a-7-gadget-change-the-world\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T15:23:58","slug":"can-a-7-gadget-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/can-a-7-gadget-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a $7 gadget change the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-27346567'>Can a $7 gadget change the world?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emergentfutures.tumblr.com\/post\/85534747613\/can-a-7-gadget-change-the-world\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">emergentfutures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">The USB flash drive is one of the most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim to combat the lack of access to computers by providing what amounts to an operating-system-on-a-stick.<\/p>\n<p>In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (\u00a323,750)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/keepod-unite\">on fundraising site Indiegogo<\/a>, providing the cash to begin a campaign to offer low-cost computing to the two-thirds of the globe\u2019s population that currently has little or no access.<\/p>\n<p>The test bed for the project is the slums of Nairobi in Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a $7 gadget change the world? emergentfutures: The USB flash drive is one of the most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted. Now it\u2019s being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod. Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}