{"id":38335,"date":"2011-04-02T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wearethedigitalkids-there-are-already-84m\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:48:13","slug":"wearethedigitalkids-there-are-already-84m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wearethedigitalkids-there-are-already-84m\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38335 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wearethedigitalkids-there-are-already-84m\/attachment\/38336\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_li9lvtLWjL1qzv5vno1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com\/post\/3943232944\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wearethedigitalkids<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are already 84m internet-enabled mobiles in Africa. It is predicted that 69% of mobiles in Africa will have internet access by 2014. A week\u2019s worth of data can be had for $3. That\u2019s still too much for the majority of Africans, who earn less than $2 a day, but it seems a miracle to those who were shelling out $1,500 for a sim card in 1998. And the mobile web is a more potent communication tool than anything else in African history, because it is interactive, participatory, and to some degree democratic and anonymous. On the internet you can doubt, you can challenge, you can be openly gay, join the opposition or find fellow believers, and most of all you can be entertained and informed in those long hours in traffic jams or evenings in crowded rooms lit by a single bulb\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">African cultures are among the most oral in the world. Storytelling under the tree is still commonplace. Speaking is still preferred to writing and Africa happens to have timed its digital age to coincide with new voice-activated technologies. The generation gap between those who were trained to guide a fountain pen with their fingers, those whose kinetic memory is dominated by their thumbs, and those even younger who are used to the sweeping movements of the touchscreen, will give way to the return of voice<\/span>\u2014Africa\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/jm-ledgard\/digital-africa?page=full\">Digital Africa<\/a>\u00a0(Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/87913776@N00\/305425495\/in\/set-72157594390587785\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wearethedigitalkids: \u201cThere are already 84m internet-enabled mobiles in Africa. It is predicted that 69% of mobiles in Africa will have internet access by 2014. A week\u2019s worth of data can be had for $3. That\u2019s still too much for the majority of Africans, who earn less than $2 a day, but it seems a miracle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-gallery","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-gallery"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Yj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335","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=38335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38337,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions\/38337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}