{"id":173821,"date":"2025-09-22T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173821\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:14:09","slug":"meet-the-brilliant-scientist-who-brought-internet-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173821\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the brilliant scientist who brought internet to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/The-brilliant-scientist-who-brought-internet-to-Africa-132970\" style=\"width:100%\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/90618855.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Nii Narku Quaynor introduced internet in Africa\" title=\"Professor Nii Narku Quaynor introduced internet in Africa\" width=\"256\" height=\"155\" \/> play video<\/a>Professor Nii Narku Quaynor introduced internet in Africa<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Africa was detached from the reality of other parts of the world due to the lack of internet connectivity on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction level with people in other countries was low at the time as it was mostly done face-to-face or by phone call.<\/p>\n<p>For others to get connected to their friends and loved ones in other parts of the world, one needed to send a letter or run the message by fax.<\/p>\n<p>But the narrative changed in 1994 when Professor Nii Narku Quaynor introduced internet in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Quaynor pioneered the development of internet and its expansion throughout Africa for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>He also set up key organizations including African Network Operators Group to ensure African countries, especially, Ghana were connected to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on BizTech on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3718\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GhanaWeb<\/a> TV, Professor Nii Narku Quaynor recounted the evolution of internet in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the host, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ernestina Serwaa Asante<\/a>, about some challenges in the usage of this technology &#8211; internet &#8211; and how users can be protected.<\/p>\n<p>This story was earlier published on Feb 10, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SA\/AE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoProfessor Nii Narku Quaynor introduced internet in Africa Africa was detached from the reality of other parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-173821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}