{"id":5077,"date":"2011-07-08T01:19:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T01:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/07\/08\/with-internet-penetration-growing-steadily-in-the\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T01:19:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T01:19:58","slug":"with-internet-penetration-growing-steadily-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/07\/08\/with-internet-penetration-growing-steadily-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":"With Internet penetration growing steadily in the Maldives (currently about 20 percent according to the CIA World Book of Facts), the web is quickly becoming the Maldivians\u2019 medium of choice for exercising their freedom of speech. The Maldives Project will build upon this foundation by teaching the students multimedia skills so that they can tell their stories not only through writing but through video production, audio slideshows and blogging."},"content":{"rendered":"

With Internet penetration growing steadily in the Maldives (currently about 20 percent according to the CIA World Book of Facts), the web is quickly becoming the Maldivians\u2019 medium of choice for exercising their freedom of speech. The Maldives Project will build upon this foundation by teaching the students multimedia skills so that they can tell their stories not only through writing but through video production, audio slideshows and blogging.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Internet penetration growing steadily in the Maldives (currently about 20 percent according to the CIA World Book of Facts), the web is quickly becoming the Maldivians\u2019 medium of choice for exercising their freedom of speech. The Maldives Project will build upon this foundation by teaching the students multimedia skills so that they can tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1jT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2794,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/22\/the-vacuum-cleaner-the-artist-and-activist\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":0},"title":"the vacuum cleaner – the artist and activist collective of one.","author":"monochromist","date":"March 22, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"the vacuum cleaner - the artist and activist collective of one.suntzuplatoon: 20 March 2012, Male\u2019, Maldives 42 days since the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, six years after the inauguration of the country\u2019s first National Art Gallery tonight it was teeming with silently protesting young local artists. 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