{"id":204427,"date":"2025-08-11T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-launches-new-digital-emergency-telecommunications-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:28:06","slug":"namibia-govt-launches-new-digital-emergency-telecommunications-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-launches-new-digital-emergency-telecommunications-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Launches New Digital, Emergency Telecommunications Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Minister of information and communication technology chnology Emma Theofelus on Tuesday officially launched the National Digital Strategy (NDS) and the National Emergency Telecommunications Plan (NETP).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The NDS is designed to serve as a framework for Namibia&#8217;s holistic digital advancement and to support socio-economic and environmental development through technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The NETP, meanwhile, facilitates communication and the sharing of information on natural hazards and disaster risks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508060197.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of information and communication technology chnology Emma Theofelus on Tuesday officially launched the National Digital Strategy (NDS) and the National Emergency Telecommunications Plan (NETP). The NDS is designed to serve as a framework for Namibia&#8217;s holistic digital advancement and to support socio-economic and environmental development through technological innovation. The NETP, meanwhile, facilitates communication and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9633,6990,4357,5957,4706,724,257,5212,254,12404],"class_list":["post-204427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-emergency","tag-govt","tag-launches","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-plans","tag-south-africa-today","tag-telecommunications"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}