{"id":80661,"date":"2018-07-15T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/silicon-valley-eyes-africa-as-new-tech-frontier"},"modified":"2018-07-15T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:03:42","slug":"silicon-valley-eyes-africa-as-new-tech-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/silicon-valley-eyes-africa-as-new-tech-frontier","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley eyes Africa as new tech frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valley-eyes-africa-as-new-tech-frontier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lagos \u2014 With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech hub in the Lagos metropolis wouldn\u2019t look out of place among the start-ups on the other side of the world in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>But the NG_Hub office is in the suburb of Yaba \u2014 the heart of Nigeria\u2019s burgeoning tech scene that is attracting interest from global giants keen to tap into an emerging market of young, connected Africans.<\/p>\n<p>In May, both Google and Facebook launched initiatives nearby.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Companies\/ICT\/silicon-valley-eyes-africa-as-new-tech-frontier-20180715\">https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Companies\/ICT\/silicon-valley-eyes-afri...r-20180715<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos \u2014 With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech hub in the Lagos metropolis wouldn\u2019t look out of place among the start-ups on the other side of the world in Silicon Valley. But the NG_Hub office is in the suburb of Yaba \u2014 the heart of Nigeria\u2019s burgeoning tech scene that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}