{"id":214824,"date":"2025-11-25T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-reimagining-democracy-development-and-data-for-the-next-decade\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:07:43","slug":"africa-reimagining-democracy-development-and-data-for-the-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-reimagining-democracy-development-and-data-for-the-next-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Reimagining Democracy, Development, and Data for the Next Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Abuja \u2014 <em>Welcome Address to the Third Annual <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Development Conference <\/a>[MDC-03] in Abuja on 24 November 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Your Excellencies, distinguished partners, delegates, scholars, innovators, students, friends, and many of our online participants from all the corners of the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">It is my honour to welcome you all to the third edition of CJID&#8217;S Media Development Conference [MDC-03], and what has now become one of the most important African regional media gathering. Today&#8217;s convening has our 300&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511250272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja \u2014 Welcome Address to the Third Annual Media Development Conference [MDC-03] in Abuja on 24 November 2025. Your Excellencies, distinguished partners, delegates, scholars, innovators, students, friends, and many of our online participants from all the corners of the globe. It is my honour to welcome you all to the third edition of CJID&#8217;S Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680031:5152a01585efd7fb41d37ee6d3a15bb6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9880,7671,4854,5989,257,393,31417,254],"class_list":["post-214824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-data","tag-decade","tag-democracy","tag-development","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reimagining","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680031:5152a01585efd7fb41d37ee6d3a15bb6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214824","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}