{"id":60516,"date":"2020-01-31T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/speedcast-government-provides-connectivity-for-niger-election\/"},"modified":"2020-01-31T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T10:01:19","slug":"speedcast-government-provides-connectivity-for-niger-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/speedcast-government-provides-connectivity-for-niger-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedcast Government Provides Connectivity for Niger Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Speedcast Government<\/b> is supporting a <b>United Nations <\/b>agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger, Africa, to prevent electoral fraud. Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet services, equipment, life-cycle operation, installation, maintenance and logistics support for eight regional electoral sites. <\/p>\n<p>The project is divided in two phases and expected to be completed before Niger\u2019s legislative and presidential elections take place in 2020-2021. A general election is scheduled for Dec. 27, 2020 to elect the president and National Assembly.&nbsp;<sup id=\"cite_ref-AA_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the great efforts being taken to provide a transparent, fair and equitable election process in Niger, Speedcast Government is pleased to be able to support the U.N.\u2019s mission in this endeavor and we look forward to future opportunities where our satcom expertise can add value,\u201d Speedcast Government Senior Director of Global Accounts Brum Cerzosimo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speedcast Government is supporting a United Nations agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger, Africa, to prevent electoral fraud. Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet services, equipment, life-cycle operation, installation, maintenance and logistics support for eight regional electoral sites. The project is divided in two phases and expected to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}