{"id":22978,"date":"2016-04-21T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=22978"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:06:16","slug":"challenge-winners-impress-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/challenge-winners-impress-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge winners impress Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four students who won the TNM Smart Challenge are back from the United States of America where they went to tour the world\u2019s technology hub, Silicon Valley. While there, the four visited Facebook, Google and Stanfold University. TNM Chief Operations Manager, Dan Makata, said the Malawi team made history as it was the only one that represented Africa at the annual ICT International Conference in San Francisco California and was the only group that had an opportunity to interact with [Facebook owner] Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also had the youngest member and only female representative, a development which impressed Zuckerburg,\u201d he said. The four, Panache Jere, Daniel Mvalo, Walter Moyo and Thandie Magasa have since committed to use the knowledge and skills they have acquired in the US to assist Malawi develop its ICT sector further<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four students who won the TNM Smart Challenge are back from the United States of America where they went to tour the world\u2019s technology hub, Silicon Valley. While there, the four visited Facebook, Google and Stanfold University. TNM Chief Operations Manager, Dan Makata, said the Malawi team made history as it was the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22983,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978\/revisions\/22983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}