{"id":13794,"date":"2017-07-25T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2017-07-25T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T07:40:27","slug":"disruptive-technology-and-connectivity-accelerating-the-african-digital-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2017\/07\/25\/disruptive-technology-and-connectivity-accelerating-the-african-digital-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptive technology and connectivity accelerating the African digital revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecting Africa community and leading series of African technology, media and telecommunications events has officially launched the largest online event dedicated to tracking disruptive technologies across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off in September, this week-long agenda will encompass the biggest sectors and topics across the African continent; from tech startups to FinTech and IoT to connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Registering for free will allow delegates to learn, engage and discuss African telco, tech and innovation in real-time with thought-leaders across the globe and put Digital Week delegates at the epicentre of the connectivity ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting Africa digital delegates will gain access to exclusive webinars, as well as on-demand videos, downloadable resources and discussion forums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Webinar agenda<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u2022 Tuesday 5 September: Empowering the African Tech Startup Ecosystem<br \/>\n\u2022 Wednesday 6 September:  FinTech and the Future of Banking in Africa<br \/>\n\u2022 Thursday 7 September: Connecting Africa<br \/>\n\u2022 Friday 8 September: Digital Transformation and IoT<\/p>\n<p>Check out the in depth agenda <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/iGg1ZK\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The full speaker line-up of prominent African tech and connectivity experts will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecting Africa Digital Week is completely free to attend, register as a delegate <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/iGg1ZK\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of presenting opportunities may still be available, to find out more email: digitalweek@knectafrica.com    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecting Africa community and leading series of African technology, media and telecommunications events has officially launched the largest online event dedicated to tracking disruptive technologies across Africa. Kicking off in September, this week-long agenda will encompass the biggest sectors and topics across the African continent; from tech startups to FinTech and IoT to connectivity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,399,19],"tags":[385,1463,2217,389,1546,679,390],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-more-news","category-regional-news","tag-africa","tag-digital-africa","tag-digital-technology","tag-digital-transformation","tag-events","tag-fintech","tag-iot"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}