{"id":70124,"date":"2016-05-19T01:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/coordinator-macon-phillips-travels-to-senegal-ghana-and-uganda\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:35:54","slug":"coordinator-macon-phillips-travels-to-senegal-ghana-and-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coordinator-macon-phillips-travels-to-senegal-ghana-and-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinator Macon Phillips Travels to Senegal, Ghana, and Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, May 18, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media Note<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>May 17, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\nMacon Phillips, Coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs, will travel to Senegal, Ghana, and Uganda May 18-26 to engage with the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network and meet with stakeholders to discuss entrepreneurship and public outreach on digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Coordinator Phillips will visit Senegal May 18-20 where he will meet with young Senegalese to discuss a range of issues including entrepreneurship, women in technology, and leadership. He will also meet with prominent bloggers, journalists and with members of the YALI Dakar Regional Leadership Center team.<\/p>\n<p>The Coordinator will travel to Ghana May 20-23 where he will participate in the YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship West Africa Regional Conference in Accra and join a capacity-building YALI TechCamp for grassroots organizers at Ashesi University.<\/p>\n<p>The Coordinator will visit Uganda May 24-26 where he will meet with members of the YALI Network and host roundtable discussions with civil society in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>For more updates on Coordinator Phillips\u2019 trip, follow him on Twitter @Macon44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, May 18, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC May 17, 2016 Macon Phillips, Coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs, will travel to Senegal, Ghana, and Uganda May 18-26 to engage with the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network and meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-70124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}