{"id":664,"date":"2024-02-08T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/?p=664"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:40:57","slug":"the-decade-that-changed-the-democratic-republic-of-congos-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"The Decade That Changed The Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over ten years ago, using the Internet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) wasn\u2019t easy. There was a lot less infrastructure, and even where it was present, the fees of intercontinental data traffic meant it was way more expensive than most people could afford. Only a fraction of its population was [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-decade-that-changed-the-democratic-republic-of-congos-internet\/\">The Decade That Changed The Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s Internet<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/\">Internet Society<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over ten years ago, using the Internet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) wasn\u2019t easy. There was a lot less infrastructure, and even where it was present, the fees of intercontinental data traffic meant it was way more expensive than most people could afford. Only a fraction of its population was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/?p=664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decade That Changed The Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DRC-250x109-uIEei3.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}