{"id":4020,"date":"2015-03-09T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2015-03-09T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:23:09","slug":"turkey-to-offer-free-internet-to-poor-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-to-offer-free-internet-to-poor-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to offer free Internet to poor families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People and families with low incomes in Turkey will receive free Internet access under a new government measure announced Friday.<br \/>\nAccording to the Ministry of Development\u2019s 2015-2018 Information Society Strategy and Action Plan, the aim is to reduce the digital divide by providing Internet access to Turkey\u2019s poorest, giving families with students the priority.<br \/>\nUsers will have unlimited access to certain websites deemed useful to students and families. Usage quotas will apply for surfing the rest of the web.<br \/>\nThe plan also announces upgrades to Internet infrastructure and will make it compulsory for new buildings to be Internet-ready.<br \/>\nA government survey in August 2014 found that 42.8 percent of households do not have Internet at home because they &#8220;have no need&#8221; for it. Another 31.9 percent said access costs are too high.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-to-offer-free-internet-to-poor-families\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People and families with low incomes in Turkey will receive free Internet access under a new government measure announced Friday. According to the Ministry of Development\u2019s 2015-2018 Information Society Strategy and Action Plan, the aim is to reduce the digital divide by providing Internet access to Turkey\u2019s poorest, giving families with students the priority. Users &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}